POLITICAL Poem: Ode to a Pandemic, by Mary Ellen Humphrey

We’re all going a little crazy
Slowly, day after day after day
The new vocabulary: quarantine,
Isolate, PPE, social distancing
Daily Death Count
Rumors of vicious variants
Covid 19 – SARS

It brings out the best in us
And the worst
Our strength and our weakness
Our true metal, whatever that is

I’m not sure anymore, if its internal or eternal
My dialog, my words are my companions
How do you rebuild the invisible?
Safe is an illusion
we sacrifice so much to be safe
our sanity

Is this mother nature’s culling?
Big questions to ponder in quiet isolation
Was this just a dress rehearsal?
Will we ever be safe again?
Will the pandemic ever really end?

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