The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 57

DAY 57: Who's dying?

They're dying

or we're dying?

We are

you are us, we are you

old and sick -- or not,

160 doctors of medicine

in Italy up to today --

say their names out loud* --

we die with you

alone and afraid

we mourn with your families

we can't breathe

in the 'us' and 'them' of some

perverted religion: we

righteous, you damned,

that became international politics

blue / red -- all blood -- vein / artery

all the same

no 'them', no 'other', all us

we, We the people, WE. THE. PEOPLE.

same blood coming and going, same

breath, same death,

for all, rich and poor, the

1% die 1% of the time, we

99, we're losing ourselves

fast, so fast we can't fill out the forms --

remember any one loved one gone

that gut punch, head spin --

how can we expect ourselves

to repeat that shock for

5, 5000, 50000?

only by being part of the whole

organism, that's losing precious cells,

can we get it all, as we dying

we, all around the world

and it hurts.

*see list in comments