The World is Closed - A topical poem - update and edit!

Update 14th January 2021!

Imagine how exciting to have just discovered that the author of this fantastic topical poet is actually one of our community members. When I first read it, it had no attribution but I have just amended that so that credit is given where credit is so well deserved. (I've just given attribution with this member's screen name for online safety purposes, but I'm sure he is destined to become very well known and that you'll join me in thanking him for a great contribution to the whole history of this devastating pandemic I feel sure that he and his poem are going to become known as a valuable contribution to the history books which deal with all things covid19. Thank you, 'thebrummypoet' and I'm very happy to find you here among us!😊 👍 🌈

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Just sharing a poem my sister posted on her Facebook page yesterday, It seems to have been written in response to our current situation

The World is Closed

They said the world was closed today so I went to have a look,

I found it with the shutters down and the phone was off the hook.

So I stood there for a little while, but no one was around,

Then silence came and startled me with the most alarming sound.

I asked him where the others were, and why the streets were bare,

He whispered ‘Life had run away while death was playing there’

‘Oh no’ I said ‘It can’t be true for life is not afraid’

‘But no one ever goes’ he said ‘Where death has ever played.’

I understood and walked away as Hope was standing there

With Courage in her afterglow and the sunlight in her hair.

She said ‘Go home to those you love this is no place to be,

For if we walk these streets today then no one shall be free’.

She threw her light to lead the way and showed me where to go,

The very road that life had gone where the future flowers grow.

Then death showed me another way but I didn’t want to look,

So I stumbled home in time for tea and I read another book.

It was called The World is Closed Today and the streets we shouldn’t roam,

The first line said ‘Just please be safe’

And the ending - ‘Stay at Home’

~ Author 'thebrummiepoet'! -