You can think of this
pandemic as an novel
slowly unfolding.
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Usually you write nice lively poems. Today you are dead serious...pun intended. Its a beautifully truthfully wonderfully done poem. Yes Covid has exposed some of our human frailties but also shown that if even you carry the doomsday keys you are no different from a Masai kid in the Kibera slum. Ummmm....lol...your home work is to find out what is Masai...a slum...and Kibera. And who Donald Trump is. Great poem.
'All the small sins and great vanities of mankind have a home in us.' - Well said!
The squalor and meaningless chaos of our predicament makes us thirsty for inspiration. If imagination can step up and wrestle with all that nastiness, our journey becomes a moral drama of our own redemption. We need a story worthy of our dignity.