Poem: A hanging pain

Novel, splashed on the earth’s surface

Lingering, nobody dares stand in your path

Where did you come from?

As a child I ask, emotions tattered

When will you be wiped away?

Why are you always planning evil?

Grabbed many a person’s attention

All of a sudden

We had to change all of our intentions

Close down our favourite places

To curb your spread and

Wipe out your deadly footprints

Ruined our schooling days

Pounded our schedules

To a pulp

I wonder why

You had to use silent force to

Lock down

Our places of worship

I ask

How did we get blindsided

With no ease to our lives

Regardless of the protocols

I still wake up in fear

Because of sweeping numbers

Of people wheezing to their deaths

Your true colours

Are unpleasant to behold

Oh what a