A Covid Reflection

A Covid Reflection

By Robyn Appelbe.

I remember the day clearly

March 13th 2020

Before that broad speech, covid-19 was merely a conversation starter.

‘’Have you heard about the new cases in America? Sure it won’t find its way over at all’’

The cruel virus doesn’t see ocean barriers, he will consume the wall

Everyone thrived to be a martyr,  everyone willing to obey

Whatever Leo said, is what we did and say

I remember the weeks clearly

Covid was no longer a merely 

It was fully pledged, with a path of death and destruction ahead. 

The daily deaths rang out on the news, people could no longer find comfort in their church pews

Shops and services closed, saying they will open soon

Staring at vacant shop windows as the months roll on to June

 I remember the months clearly

Doctors pleading sincerely

Nurses crying with fatigue, they’ve been worked as draft horses 

Holding the healthcare system on their bruised and weary corpses.

We wore our masks while needles prodded into peoples arms

Injecting liquid protection and liquid hope

People are losing their battles, no longer able to cope

Suicides skyrocket,  the youth can’t breath

We are suffocating, but it isn’t exactly covid that is making us grieve

With the news of Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd too

This is something that we hadn’t seen before, but it was not something new

The lives lost to injustice and their stories reached every corner, from NYC to GMT

And as a society, we came together and helped block out guilty Chauvin’s plea. 

The months become a blur, 

Lockdowns come and go

My heart beats in my throat as I sit staring at my phone

1,000 

2,000

3,000

4.

Why won’t it stop? Covid is a circle and has no cure

 a neverending haze.

Will we grow and develop?

find our own way through the maze?

I no longer remember the year.

2020

What a disaster

I couldn’t wait for 2021, if only it would come faster

But when it came, nothing changed.

Daily deaths still stung our nation

Like a neverending storm, tearing our society apart

Over and over again

But as humans, we adapt

we learn to battle and tie-down our hatches.

We know we must act

hope to remember the day clearly

When covid fizzles out with every other plague

I believe it will miss us dearly

But we will have taught it how to behave