It Started In a Small Way
Something good and positive
appeared before my eyes
Since covid nineteen pandemic
a virus I truly despised
At first it seemed all doom and gloom
as we sat in our homes alone
With time to sit and contemplate
this scary surreal situation
Rapidly creeping all over the World
spreading from nation to nation
So many souls have lost their fight
never hearing
never seeing
this silent monster of the night
As lockdown kept us all inside
behind closed doors a place to hide
Where sad and lonely souls they cried
fearful the virus would take them to heaven
outside was feeling just like Armageddon
But slowly and gently the panic subsides
For too many tears have now been cried
in memory of souls who lost their fight
when the evil covid
uninvited
came skulking in the night
God Bless the souls who have now gone
healed by Angels one by one
Then we began to realise
there was so much more to life
than rushing here
and rushing there
never giving a thought
never giving a care
Never getting to know our neighbours
never meeting ~ or knowing they were there
Now many folks are working from home
or furloughed with time on their hands
Whilst social distancing those they meet
never getting to know them or stopping to speak
I live in an apartment within a block of flats
So many people living here ~ though many are unknown
It started in a small way
one sunny afternoon in June
~
folks would bring out a chair
they would sit in the square
on the green
where
others joined them too
for
having seen
a great sense of community
they would chatter
they would smile
caring all the while
~
For this is how it should be
just like way back in the day
when folk could rely
on a friendly community
that sadly got lost along the way
So I pray we can eradicate
and Doctors can inoculate
and as normality begins to return
from life's precious lessons we must learn
I pray we take the time to chat
and laugh and joke ‘bout this and that
Never again must we sit at home
Within four walls so sad and alone…
Written 8th August 2020
Contest Strand Completely New (19)
Sponsor Brian Strand
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Copyright © Ann Gilmour | Year Posted 2020
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