Page 48 - Everyone a Writer Anthology 2021

When the world stopped,
We were living on a loop
We were silently waiting to wake up from this dreadful, horrible nightmare
We were stuck in and we couldn't get out of.
People tried to enjoy their time stuck in this nightmare,
People sang, danced and had fun in the loneliness off the dark,
But deep down inside everyone was still stuck in a nightmare
And not one person could wake up from it.

When the world stopped,
We spent time and lived the same day over and over as if it we were a movie stuck on repeat,

When the world stopped,
We hoped,
We lost our minds with having nothing to do because we were stuck in loneliness,
Waiting, just waiting for a sign that we were a just dreaming,
And that tomorrow we will just wake up and everything will be better
And it was some story our brains had made up because we were bored,
But we didn't.
Time was becoming timeless as this invisible killer was taking over the world
As a way to get back at us for all the things we had done.

When the world stopped,
We stopped.
We played the same day on repeat.
But we got better,
We became stronger and more powerful together,
When the world stopped.

Esme Sherwood
Woodseats

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