Surviving This

This poem by Pearl reflects on the pandemic. Thank you for sharing your words with us Pearl.

Surviving This

No use of armies, bombs or guns,

Invisibly silent, with stealth

It comes, to choke the life from in our lungs.

No shield can stop its mad advance, its leading us a merry dance.

Risk factors out the chance that we will catch this vile bug,

Then pass it on to those we hug

And hold so close within our hearts.

‘Scopic warriors, spiked and deadly

Breeding in us

Causing chaos,

This is History in the making, if we survive this we are breaking

Worldwide chains of spread,

God knows we need this virus dead.

All ages, stages, Life on pause,

From young to old, direct or indirect, it changes paths of Life,

Cutting through us with its knife.

We must be fierce,

Like those before in other Wars,

Not let its march delete our species,

Fight together,

Stay apart,

Wear masks to shield our weakest links,

Wash its bodies down our sinks.

Whatever’s done to us before,

We need our strength now even more,

We’re used to trauma, know the score,

Know what triggers are our flaw,

We have more than fear to mask

Surviving this now is our task.

We matter here, deserve to live,

We ALL have so much more to give.

Right now is History we can make, 

How many of us it will take

I do not know,

But Inner Strength to follow rules

Will be our armour from this foe,

We must deplete it 

Now, or go.