This Pandemic

My hands shake and my heart breaks 

As more and more lives this pandemic takes 

It chews them up and spits them out sicker 

How I'd like time to pass by quicker 

I'd like to move forward into better times 

I fear the worst every time the phone chimes 

Any innocence I had held onto is now lost 

Because even the purest should are bearing the cost 

My hope has been shattered and buried in its grave 

As I brace myself for the news of yet another wave 

This is not a pandemic it's an episode of a death note 

And I wish I could have brought back one life for every poem I wrote 

I'm tired of seeing people perish and seeing them suffer 

Because in these unprecedented times, we haven't even truly got each other