Quarantined and Left to Die

In India’s COVID fight

Photo by Ellie Burgin from Pexels

Isolated and left to die
Dumped recklessly
Into an overflowing hearse
Unknowingly falling out
For ants to feast
No one grieved
Alone, lifeless
In the busy third world

Video from India shows a body falling out of a battered ambulance as the health system buckles…

Thank you so much Harper Thorpe for this week’s prompt Alone and as always, Kathy Jacobs and the Chalkboard team and for making this possible.