Travel to the Mountain and Shout

Life is a journey 

Exploring the unknown 

Revisiting memories

While following a map 

Sometimes,

Forging new roads

Then came COVID

Altering my travels

Like a thick permanent marker

Charting a new route

On life's atlas 

Blurring the lines 

Eventually leaking

Depositing black ink blots 

Blocking a clear alternative

Unable to plot a course

Life became a broken

Compass

without direction

Closing doors to adventure

Each day moved like a 

Hungry leopard 

Alone

Uncontrollable, searching

progressing quietly, discreetly 

Silently

Searching for freedom

Even the chicken was allowed

to cross the road

And sardines move in schools 

But the pandemic creates isolation

I await the day I will travel 

To the foot of the mountain

Climb to the top and scream

"EQUALITY!"

Wake up World 

We can do this together

- Glyn, 64-year-old female

I met Glyn on a Facebook page for retired teachers. She volunteered to participate in a project to put a face on COVID. These are her thoughts formed into a poem. 

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Poems can also accessed on the Medium publication, Faces of Coronavirus

If you would be willing to share your voice to this collection, please answer the questions and forward them to Brenda Mahler via the comments section.

Below are the questions asked

What is your age and sex?

State two things you love to do?

What do you celebrate?

Life is _____________

What object represents COVID? (Think of a symbol)

Why is it like COVID

Two words that describe the object

What does COVID smell like?

If COVID was an animal which one would it be?

How does the animal move?

What sound would this animal make?

What is your favorite food?

What is your most disliked food?

What do you want to shout from the mountain tops?

Make one statement about the pandemic.