Lost Inside the Pandemic

A poem

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With each new day
comes some new twist
and turn
where someone was burned
inside the crashing waves
of the pandemic

it’s an epidemic really
and no plans in sight
or any real insight
to make things right
even when their mind
became mush
in the quiet hush
of not having
to be in a rush

so then I suppose the sound
of your own voice
became too much
for you to bear
it spoke louder and
louder until everything else
just faded away
leaving you impaired

and here is where you will stay
unless you stop
looking
the other way
and face
the Grizzly bear
today.