I Surround You With a Ring of Salt!
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I surround you with a ring of salt
Hello little Covid-19.
Who are you?
Where did you come from?
Are you something that evolved and then mutated?
Were you released from your eons of captivity within a melting ice cap?
Were you created in a lab for nefarious purposes?
How do we speak with you?
We are at the crossroads. How do we broker the deal for our lives?
Little virus, so mighty in your minute being.
Your lessons are painful.
Even as you enforce our stillness, even as you remind us the importance of breath, even as you bring death to our Beloveds, you show us the healing that has begun on our planet due to our lack of contribution - our parked cars, docked boats and grounded airplanes, our silent factories, oil drills, and chain saws. Their absences are notable.
May we learn these lessons quickly and thoroughly, and may we act on them to continue to heal our world but not be destroyed in the process.
May we find a way to contain you tiny demon, until you find your way to the stars, to a place where your presence is needed and welcome.