Page 85 - COVID Consortium Journal - An Edited Collection of Student Art and Writing

It’s good for earth itself but us, HUMANITY is still collapsing.

What will it be like when we go back to “normal”
I know for sure our lives won’t be like before. Tragic… Don’t you think?
Lucky you if you didn’t have to go through this--
Fights over toilet paper? Hand sanitizer? You never thought it’d happen?
Well it sure is happening in 2020,
It’s crazy how greedy people can be,
Majority only cares about themselves and helping themselves.
We should be helping one another, thinking about others
who don’t actually have supplies.
Oh and not to mention those ignorant people walking as if nothing has
happened,
Gets on my nerve how horrible a human can really be and act.

Be Here

Ruby Weston, School of the Future

If heaven exists, it is probably full. A line outside the gates like our local
supermarkets. People waiting to be sent to a place of peace after their death of
agony in the virus’s choking hands, and suffering still.

Shuttering in the presence of God. Blue in the face with leather hands
clutching each other. Biting your lip in hopes of a real chance at eternal
happiness in the hands of the creator of all. Contemplating all of the different
religions and beliefs, only to find whatever it is that is up there. If anything is.
Spiraling like a staircase, I stop myself. “Don’t worry,” I tell myself. “Be here.” In
the pandemic of 2020.

The cases of Covid- 19 in the U.S. doubles and triples Having no idea at
the time how powerful this virus could be, I would sit in my room naive, and
think about the devastation of not being able to go get ice cream. Not at all even
fazed by the numbers gushing out of the news. In Manhattan and working
everyday, like a horse I kept my eyes forward.

Don’t look around. Be careful where you step, and most importantly,
always try hard to keep going.

But then I moved out.

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