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COVID19 stigma?
(It’s been reported that some folks in India are beating those who have COVID19 or the doctors treating them. This poem comes from shock and sadness at the ignorance some folks show)
COVID19 stigma?
Do you not have a secret?
Perhaps an illness?
A situation?
And you show bias and beat up
those with COVID19?
Or healthcare workers treating COVID19?
Why the stigma?
The anger?
How did you even leave your home?
During quarantine to beat another?
Beat
Beat
Spit
Kick
Kick
Spit
Just because you’ve been fortunate till now….
Everyone on Earth who is human
might soon carry a COVID19 “free” certificate
So, folks can hug, and kiss, and just talk face to face
So, folks can date and marry. Be close to someone.
Heck, even saying a decent hello to someone.
And you go about being judge and executioner?
This is not HIV-AIDS, Ebola or MARS or SARS
that somehow you escaped it by some tiniest speck of luck.
Most humans will have COVID19. Period. Full stop.
So, suck it up, and throw away your nastiness, anger and beat, kick, spit.
Hold those hands in fear, humility, sadness, and constant prayer that you don’t get it.
