COVIDIFIED BRAIN

witness the shift in thinking pattern - hope to fear

I witness a silence outside,

each nook wrapped in a sheet of calmness,

the nature is at its best

full of happiness and solidarity.

Why should it then mourn the death of mankind?

a question that only silence can answer

But men are not hopeful anymore,

sshhhh...says the world outside

but there is an upheavel inside

I see flashes of bodies on the television

and a numbness cover me all up,

when i search myself for a justified emotion,

it doesn't show up...and I cry beneath for a feeling..

But then a day comes 

a day - when my own finds itself on the edge of death

and waves of tears come rushing 

without knocking or hinting

What should i explain then about this hypocrisy?

A fear greets me in the morning now

and it sleeps me to nightmare as well

My hope has to be supplied from outside..like oxygen

and my love is crying for feelings...like raw materials for a vaccine

My brain is covidified now...

pray that it keeps operating above 90

Fill my dry thoughts with steam of kindness

and let it breathe once more

let it breathe

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Fear of living, and so many have that fear. Covid has changed everything. Social distancing and lockdown help but some parts of the world where the population is denser would find social distancing impossible. Vaccines need to be manufactured at speed. Until then we are living on a knife edge of more deadly variants arriving. We have to live in hope.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is a powerful statement about the fear surrounding us with the Covid pandemic.
If only we can get to breathe again....if only....we are so programmed now to escapism.
I really like this poem.
j.