Woman Releases Balloons of Hope

Woman releases balloons of hope

A young woman 
walks in a park
 on a sunny spring day
carrying 25 red balloons  

each red balloon 
contains  the name of those
 that recently died 
in the corona virus pandemic

she is releasing the balloons 
hoping they would 
rise  to heaven 
with a request for God 

to hear her prayers
 End this pandemic 
End the death and destruction
release us from the corona pandemic 

the woman releases the balloons 
and slowly walks back to her house
to prepare to attend yet another funeral
as the pandemic swirls all around her 

creative talents unleashed prompt
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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