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Deep Beneath Collapse

Karen G. Marquez Perez, Middle College High School

So many bad things we have in this world,
If you see it for yourself your stomach might twirl.
Feel fear?.....See tears?,
Feel that stress? That Loneliness? Having Doubts?
Frustrations? Depression? And all those empty streets?
Yeah, well don’t worry you’ll see a lot of that these days.

It’s really weird what’s now become so normal.
The sirens of ambulances,
People being rushed to the hospital.
Only deaths being reported on the news,
“Don’t you think we already know more than half the population is dying?”
“GUYS LOOK AT THE NEWS THE DEATH RATES,THEY’VE INCREASED”
Oh great here we go again
“Death, Death, Death”, “Covid 19, coronavirus, Covid 19.”
School was the escape,
My escape into my calm world in my head,
My escape to travel and get air,
Yeah I was lonely, but at peace with my own soul, too distracted with other
things
to worry about my own issues, it was better than “home.”

To some the word “home” is just a place where you just live,
But to me home is a place where I feel emotionally and mentally stable,
A place that makes me feel safe, though in this world nobody is really safe.
And sure I had to deal with bad people and other bad stuff, but, it’s better than
this mental abuse, this emotional abuse being done on me, on us.

At least it’s a bit worth it, us in quarantine has decreased air pollution,
decreased water pollution as well as climate change.
We keep getting a small blessing. Thanks to this,
People are in quarantine thinking about safety and sanitation,
While nature is taking advantage and coming back to life.
If it weren’t for this,
Nature, Earth, and everything we know as life
would have be dying.

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