THE PARABLE OF ISOLATION

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PARABLE OF ISOLATION


Here we are
With untold stories:
Stories scarring our inner minds,
Uncertainties fill our hearts.
The intensity of our mood grows. 
We were told to stay safe at home
But we seem not to be doing enough.
Today isn't assured
Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.

 Coronavirus, the fear giver
We reverence you in sacred dread
A hand enveloped in the pocket 
Sanitizer in the other.

 The visitor that takes over houses
In the presence of the house owners.
We walk on the streets in dread 
The fear of meeting the giver of discomfort
The fear of entering that forbidden house
That house where solitude is celebrated
That house, home of isolation.

 The fear of meeting the multiplier of troubles.
Stay safe if you don't want to be isolated.

 Here we are
Uncertain of what happens next 
Oh ye plague!
We await your eternal demise.

Comments

  1. Unknown5 June 2020 at 06:45

    Good job Catherine, though, there are more you can still pour down here. I use to be a strong poet back then.

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  2. Kehnny5 June 2020 at 09:56

    This is a good one Catherine...more strength to write more...

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  3. Unknown5 June 2020 at 11:17

    You are doing great...

    More ink to your pen...

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  4. CICCLASSIC6 June 2020 at 00:34

    Keep it up Catherine

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  5. Prince Steve Olalekan Oyebode6 June 2020 at 01:56

    You have done a very beautiful job. The poem is succinctly explicit and brilliantly penned

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  6. Oyedeji Ramon Abiodun6 June 2020 at 06:53

    Interesting... Parable of Isolation.

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