The Enemy

• Mia Perry, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2020

The power is inevitable.
Wear your mask,
Wash your hands,
Do not talk to, or touch anybody.
Because for heaven's sake out of the thousands of people, they could be one of them.
While you are scared of people, they're scared of you,
No one is safe,
Humankind is plummeting,
Once kind people are now savages, about to rip the flesh of your happiness by contaminating you.
Get away, you don’t know where they’ve been,
Escape, before it gets to you,
Shut yourself from everything and everyone,
We are no longer free.
Your friends now your fear,
Strangers now a risk,
We are our own enemies.