The Viral War
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Dilan Baskaranathan, Grade 8
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Poetry
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2020
I describe life as happy, terrible, wonderful and sad.
It can treat you well, or not so well, but still I am glad.
If everything was perfect… in life what would you have achieved?
If everything was imperfect… you would have just grieved.
Currently, the world is going through an unprecedented disaster.
COVID19 is causing major problems now and will for a time after.
It is an invisible army gaining and weakening us by the day.
Closed cities, spectral streets; this war is truly underway.
The government is pressured, small businesses hang by a thread.
Due to coronavirus, thousands upon thousands of people are dead.
Arrogance is are our enemy, stopping us from standing as one.
Deadly for some – we need to isolate and get it over and done.
COVID doesn't discriminate; it doesn’t infect people on ethnicity.
Let's stop it and get back to life, C19 has had enough publicity.
A pandemic happens rarely, some people will never go through one.
That's why we must fight to survive until we've won.