like out of a sci-fi film
the tension builds
as our reality becomes an unrealistic
and an unwanted fantasy
we’d never have dreamt up willingly
personal habits mutated overnight, for some
people affected before our eyes, everyone
all steps ventured became tentative
a feeling of a strange abnormal that couldn’t be defined
the markers of who to be kept changing
many were lost, not just the dead
their lives upended with new realities of despair
retreating into themselves, forced there
alone with the grim reaper
loved ones watching from afar, helpless
covid-19 will cease to be eventually
oh, but the cost of the lessons learned
as mentally, emotionally and physically we heal
the scars of devastation will linger
the pain of the losses great
as we, the left behind, begin to emerge anew
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What a great description of what is going on worldwide, Susi, I particularly liked the way you call us the ones left behind, it is such a bittersweet phrase. ❌❤👩🦰
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Thank you so much, Carolyn. Yes, I fear we only tend to look at how it impacts us not fully realizing the despair of the almost 1.5 million who have died alone.
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Really great one Susi, this pandemic has caused so much upheaval already 😦
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❤ Thank you so much, Pia! Indeed it has. I look forward to the day we can honestly say our lives can resume.
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Reblogged this on Reena Saxena and commented:
Strangely forward…. by Susi Bocks
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So well described! I hope the lessons learnt stay for at least a generation. We took the world as it was, for granted.
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Or hopefully two or three or more! Thank you, Reena!
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Excellent! You have included the events and the emotions…
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Thank you, Val! ❤ I hope that we can all come out of it with some form of compassion that heals our world.
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Ah! So well expressed Susi. Excellent poem.
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❤ Thank you, Sadje! I appreciate you!
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Always a pleasure
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🙂
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You’ve described our collective situation brilliantly Susi… the pandemic has been a perpetrator of chaos and upheaval .
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Thanks, Ivor! I appreciate your kind words.
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