Corona Vs Humanity

• Marisa Djukanovic, Grade 12, Unley High School -
• Poetry
• 2020

Excellence Award in the 'The Inside Story 2020' competition

We spent our time looking at our phones,
when we had the luxury of social interaction.
We spread our germs,
when we had no fear of it killing us.
We texted and called,
when we had the opportunity to speak.
But when all that was taken away,
what did we have left?
We have complaints about spending too much time texting and calling,
and not enough time speaking.
We complain about losing social interaction,
when we never had it in the first place.
We now keep our distance,
and dare not to even breathe in one’s direction.
Before our world used to be our tissue.
What is there to lose in humanity when we never had humanity.