Contagion
Today she became a widow
at the hospital arriving to collect his belongings
the virus took his life earlier that day
alone she was as his life slipped away
His health in shambles
he came here but did not intend to stay
There is not control, no one knows the direction
or how to find the way
A woman who left with only the cltohes of her dead husband
walking out of the hospital
tears fall from her eyes
there is no words to comfort
A reality we did not plan for
Exhausted from losing this never ending war,
Please no more
This poem is about:
My community