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Challenge of the Week CXCVI
January 2021. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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Choose Life, not Death

there will be no

2021

because we are fighting

(dying)

in a plagued world

of disease

distaster

and demoralization.

there is no

specific time

to capture

specific events

as it is an

endless

raging

war

that

just

keeps

g g

n o

i and i

o n

g g

January 1st, 2021

is no different than

July 13th, 2020

unless

we

stop

this

wrath.

why?

why must we continue on

plunging metaphorical

(and non-metaphorical)

swords into each other's backs

like we have not experienced

the same parasitic

p a i n

that eats away at our life?

life

is a gift

but we treat it like we treat our food

throwing it away because we can.

do we really want a

2021?

becuase all of the suicides

and heynis crimes

scream that all we want is death

(don't you get tired of your ears bleeding and your chest heaving?)

it isn't fair

how we treat human beings

unfairly

because we think it is

fair

because

"they are not like us".

I hope that we wake up from this sleep

(this nightmare)

and realize that indifference

was all but monster

we placed in our heads

(like the ones we feared as children).

there will be no

2021

unless we end

this loop of death

(of destruction and difference)

and make time mean something again.

so,

tell me,

what's your choice?