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Coronavirus/ Covid-19 will not be with us forever. Follow the rules and it will leave us sooner.

Isolation

Isolation
By Franklin Price
03/25/2020

In the throes of covid-19,
We have gone to isolation.
Gone away from one another
For the people of this nation

This is not a normal practice
This is not what humans do
We're doing it to stop the spread
For the health of me and you

The spread of covid-19
Happens when we're face to face
When we're close to one another
When we're in a crowded place

If in that crowd,  there's coughing 
Or we touch another's hand
We can get it or can give it
To spread it farther in the  land

Coronavirus, a destroyer
Of older people, who are ill.
Those with breathing troubles, 
Are the ones it wants to kill.

Not all of them are older
But mostly fifty years or more
Could be your nanny or your papa
Looking at death's final door.

So hunker down and isolate
Let the virus pass you by
Don't get it, and don't give it
Covid's not the way to die

When this war is over
And the battles in it through 
Be one, who followed orders,
And did the most that you could do

Hang in there, this will not be forever
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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March 25, 2020 at 7:57 PM
Sensible, sage advice, Franklin. Thank YOU! Cheers, Gershon
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