Waiting for Death to Come

The world is trying to fight a pandemic.

Countries forced into lockdowns. 

Watching loved ones die behind small tablet screens.

Isolation for over a year.

Financial and mental meltdowns.

Messages of hate from an ignorant nation.

Just when you think you are about to regain normality, your phone pings to tell you to isolate yourself again.

Poems created from a decade where paranoia, insecurity, loneliness, infection and hatred have become an everyday reality.