COVID-19

Arshia Ramesh, 10Overland Park, KS Thank You Doctors Arshia Ramesh, 10 I’ve been watching you for some time, I can’t imagine what you do every day. Crashing waves and burning skies, You seem calm during this hard time. People are sick and gonna die, But you save them with your diamond mind. You’ve been taking double shifts to make us feel alright, Thank you for being a supporter in this hard time. I’ve been walking in a world gone blind, I don’t know how to feel in this pandemic time I have been thinking for a while I wish the world will go back to its old time.

Emma Hoff, 8Bronx, NY Mad World 2020 Emma Hoff, 8 Locked In your own head, In fear That the grass will Turn different The minute You open the Door. That Flickering lights And a cloak Will greet you And everything Will attack your mind At once When you see What’s happening To other people. ‘Children waiting for the day they feel good’ And nothing seems right As everyone Cries Stressed Scared Or alone, as if floating. ‘Their tears are filling up their glasses’ And no one Comes along to comfort them, Because no one Is there. Everyone is holed up in their homes Out of trouble. ‘And I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take. When people run in circles it’s a very, very, mad world.’ Emma’s poem was submitted to our Weekly Flash Contest #20: to write a poem inspired by a song. It refers to Mad World, originally written and performed by Tears for Fears (1983) and covered by many other artists since.