Coronavirus, Let Them Survive If I Will Survive! Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

I have done no harm
I have had no pride
I have eaten simple foods all my life
I have never been disrespectful or unforgiving.

I have always stood up for truth
I have always sought understanding
I have always banished the wrongs
I have been what I have been
I have never erred in my prudence.

I have never prayed hard or asked for more
I have always enjoyed what God gave to me,
I have been content and peace-promoting,
I have been tolerant and deservedly unkind
I have never grabbed from others their belongings
I have never ever given to others what should be mine.

I have adhered strictly to the virtue of patience
I have got all what my destiny promised
I have had love in a measure which I expected,
I have never allotted hate a place in my lungs
I have dwelt by what was appeasing to my heart.

I did not eat carnivorously or in excess
I have not let animals die to feed myself
I have not even asked for fried fish to be in my plate
I have enjoyed vegetables and pulses for my meals
I have eaten ice cream and fruits very graciously.

I have no reason to let you infect me
I have no reason to see if you can possess me
I have lived with a true conscience under my chest
I have always accepted what my fate just read.

I traveled many places of the world
I never lived in luxury or abundance
I always had great respect for nature and environment
I deserve to live and let my generation survive
I know they will carry the same trend of humbleness like me.

I will be the lonely lighthouse of love if I survive
I know in the darkness everyone will look up at me
I know if they will survive they will make me their idol
I know they will learn from now on to walk with compunction
I know they will reform with the fear you have instilled
I know they will be grateful and change if they survive.