From Margaret - A poem for our times

They said the world was closed today
 So I went to have a look,
 I found it with the shutters down
 And the phone was off the hook.
 So I stood there for a little while
 But no one was around,
 Then silence came and startled me
 With the most alarming sound.
 I asked him where the others were,
 And why the streets were bare,
 He whispered ‘Life had ran away
 While death was playing there’
 ‘Oh no’ I said ‘It can’t be true
 For life is not afraid’
 ‘But no one ever goes’ he said
‘Where death has ever played.’
I understood and walked away
 As Hope was standing there
 With Courage in her afterglow
 And the sunlight in her hair.
 She said ‘Go home to those you love
 This is no place to be,
 For if we walk these streets today
 Then no one shall be free’.
She threw her light to lead the way
 And showed me where to go,
 The very road that life had gone
 Where the future flowers grow.
 Then death showed me another way
 But I didn’t want to look,
 So I stumbled home in time for tea
 And I read another book.
 It was called The World is Closed Today
 And the streets we shouldn’t roam,
 The first line said ‘Just please be safe’
And the ending - ‘Stay at Home’.

Stay safe Xxx