Pandemic Poem


Ventilators hiss and click

Ominous reminder

Tired faces

Exhausted bodies

 

How long will this go on?

Intolerable cruelty

Mercilessly rampaging humanity

 

Ongoing pain

Unrelenting illness

Tell me when it will finally end.

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