Shutdown

COVID-19, a seam ripper, slowly tearing the world apart,
Separating the people and relationships you love because you're supposed to stay 15 feet apart.
It's shredding the thin bonds between us, and there is no end in sight.
Stock market crashing, the whole planet in shutdown.
Businesses close due to no business.
Schools go online, students left with nowhere to go.
Attempts to dull the piercing blade, smothered by a metal blockade.
Drug stores wiped clean of all disinfectant. 
Hand sanitizer sold out.
While scientists fight to cure this impending disaster, some people stand by assured
As panic spreads quicker than the illness that ignited it.

Ice Blink

VT

17 years old