Lockdown Children
- Grace Davies - poetry
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 29, 2020
The written poem is under the video of it being read out loud.
They were lockdown children,
children of masks and hand sanitiser,
sterile children, trying to eradicate
the spread, afraid
to cough, afraid
to sneeze, afraid
to share
or touch or hug.
They were lockdown children,
learning at home
how life can throw curve balls
out of our control,
how adults don’t have the answers always,
how we’re helpless against nature’s destruction.
They were lockdown children,
metamorphosing into balls to be juggled
with work and commitments and life
at its most messy,
seeing parental perfection disintegrate
before them
like wood crumbling to ash.
They were lockdown children,
they exchanged the freedom of childhood,
for safety, for security, for cleanliness,
sentenced to house arrest,
where all they gained
was time.
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