Long forgotten is the celebration last year
When we walked and greeted with a freedom ignored
Such are these gifts more precious than gold
As we embrace this time, a different Eid

Since childhood, our memories have stacked and piled
Clothing with tags in a bag on the floor 
Preparations of platters of treats to share
Children on errands at neighbour’s doors

Morning welcomes the first daytime snack
A month since daylight had observed us eat
The rushing of brushing and dressing in rush
Heading to the Eid prayer, reciting takbir

Returning home after partaking of greetings 
The festivities have begun in homes, in streets
Children eager, spending their gifted coins
Echoes in the terraced tunnel of a different Eid

This time we celebrate in unfamiliar ways
An alternative prayer will suffice at home
Virtual, the word through devices smart
The clothes and food enjoyed alone

Yet think not of that lost to the wind
Gratitude be shared for that which we hold
With patience and care and kindness bear
Recall the month that hath passed not old

Delve in thought of ourselves not others 
Ask what difference has been made to me
Of the change that I can embrace from here
To be that whom I should always have been

For in the value of these lessons of life
Lay the secrets of our dreams and our fears
To be better than that which before we were
Take time to realise as we embrace this year
A different Eid.