#covid · #poetry · grief poetry

The Void

And when all this is done…
And we’re finally let out again,
We will find…
Our very own personal world,
Our own Truman’s show,
filled with lovely people, we only somewhat know…
A lot emptier than before!

So many will have gone, without even a goodbye,
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker,
The local fruit seller, the news reader,
A neighbour’s friend we often saw when she visited her…
Those who live on the outskirts of our everyday,
but make it so much better with their smiles,
and kind words they say.

That’s when it will hit us…
The casualties of this war who’ve been reduced to statistics,
Will leave a void, the rest will spend a lifetime filling.
Nitya Alwani Satyani


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