Surviving the COVID-19 for the Sake of Survival (A poem)

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Surviving the COVID-19 for the Sake of Survival

By Adrian D’Costa

Streets that had the hustle and bustle

everywhere and the hubbub was frequent

is now empty.

Empty without the liveliness.

COVID-19 Coronavirus. The name it is.

The death. The Grim Reaper.

Everywhere you go.

Waiting to strike at 12 o’clock at night.

Not even the Canadian Prime Minister’s true love for his

wife could protect her from contracting this highly contagious

illness. Love. A word with four little letters.

Are given away and taken in by people

all around the world.

Evilness is subsiding.

What we have is asking for forgiveness

and the mentality of being changed.

From Prime Minister to President to healthcare professionals

to doctors to nurses to government officials

to public figures to people like you and me

are worried about death. Worried for the people around us.
Worried for the world.

For friends and family members.

For the world and the nation.
How many innocent people have to die?

Today our leader Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau urged the Canadians

not to tackle this as a primitive elementary

issue constricted within the boundary

of our border but as a global issue

by following the rules of battleground

of the medical field and by being a true Canuck

united to one Tough and Rough Ice Hockey Team.

Because in the past we have seen over and over again,

what Canadians did to outlast, to outmaneuver, and to outwit

every pestilence, every war, and every burning matter

of our lives by being the citizens of this world

and being united near the brunt of the fire.

Yes. We saw the Canadian

lives being lost unexpectedly.

But we will win this.
We will get through this.

Believe me, my fellow countrymen.

With our Technology and our Intelligence

we will be at the top of our game.

We will contribute to the world

as part of the approach of Humanity

to save the world.

Time is nigh.

Time is short.

Time is not on our side.

But we cannot and must not allow to

smudge off the last imprint of Homo Sapiens

from the caves of this earth.

We have to stop this deadly pandemic.

We have to come as one to work

to uphold our Human Element.

And make the impossible possible.

We stopped the Ebola.

We seized the SARS.

We vanished the Black Plague.

We sent a rocket to the moon and back.

We can’t back down now.

We have to survive

for the sake of survival.

That must be our motto now.