Quarantine

Alone within this lonely space,

protected from that flood of death

that sweeps the distant land,

I sit.

Once drawn to others in my course,

magnetic lines of social force

held union with my heart and soul,

now worthless as a chunk of coal,

as sanity retreats.

No courage here within my heart,

as nervously I stay apart

from all those friends that I know best,

avoiding every single guest,

a coward in the dark.