quarantine
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I can’t breathe.
It’s choking me -- suffocating me.
But I just let it.
All the air sucked from my lungs.
But I endure.
Once we were all together
Together is not the same now
Now we are seperated
Seperated it's so easy to go down a rabbit hole of doubt
Doubt that anyone cares
Cares that you are alive and struggling
Hi Friend,Or, uh. . .
Maybe friend.
I only say
Maybe
Because it has been
52 days since I saw
You last.
I can’t stop Thinking about you.
I have loved you since
The first day of 9th grade
When you just
Moved into our school.
I love you.
I need help.
They say there are good days and bad days.
But how can you tell the difference when you don’t even know what day it is?
Powerful,
she drove me insane.
mental heath diagnosis’ and
medications prescribed
...useless,
it won’t turn off the thoughts,
Alone, in silence,
trapped within my cognitive prison.
Lack of inspiration.
I want to start a movement,
but the world just stopped.
Quarantine just went into placeHave to stay at home just in case
The relieved sigh of the doctor and nurseBut as time goes by its getting worse
That was a rainy day
Mom got hurt
It was only me and her
I was scared, could only run away
That's how it started
I'd become a nurse
And after some time
to protect the ones I love
It won't feel like this forever
Everyone keeps saying that
That used to be the depression tagline
But now it applies to the entire world
It's the truth
but what about right now?
I'm writing a poem cause I don't want to work.
My project is due soon, there's twelve hours left.
But quarantine's getting to me, I'm going berserk.
Stuck in my home here, I'm feeling bereft.
I feel dead inside
When will the crippling fear end?
Am I a lost cause?
Could I have changed the course?
I could have told them
I let them believe the lie
If only they knew
I live for dreams
just out of reach.
resting my head each night,
demanding that
tomorrow brings
Fufillment.
a blue jay
with clipped wings
scowers the earth
Today has made me feel very dark
For the last month it gets dark and adds a pain to my heart
I don’t miss the school or the stupid fools in it
But I miss the time away from home
The world outside seems frozen
In the relativity of the time
Everything's broken
Nostalgia for what's gone
Guilty passiveness, sadness
For those who won't return
Powerless, unable to fight
does university really encourage individuality
at home we are able to learn freely
without restrictions of integrity
withou being watched constantly
free space free mental states
Quiet nights, quiet days
Upside down and so confused, what is happening to our world?
Alone and afraid, separated from humanity
Reaching for hands that cannot ever touch
Asking questions that no one can answer
On these days at home,
I am left with only myself.
How blank everything feels when you can’t live in the world around you.
The calmness unsettles me.
There are no expectations to be vibrant and eventful.
Watching the worldFrom inside of my houseWatching it collapse and collideAnd the only thing I think aboutIs you.Your smell and your smileYour facetime pops upWe’ve been calling each otherDaily, for weeks nowMy heart collapses in itselfWe shouldn’t
I knew I shouldn't get excited
I shouldn't get myself worked up
I got a little taste of freedom
Now where am I? I'm fucked!
You took the away the ocean
with which I fell so deep in love
***ADAPTED FROM ORIGINAL LYRICS WRITTEN BY ME***
I'll quarantine my heart
Keep it close but keep it far
From anyone
Who might say they love me
You should have been my cure
Your medicine was never pure
There's fear.
Apprehension.
Paranoia,
If you will.
We hide.
We hoard.
We gossip to our fill.
I'd rather just be free.
To laugh, run, and embrace.
I'd rather take that risk,
