Sunny challenged me to write a poem about quarantine!!!
We call it lockdown here but quarantine was so much easier for rhymes and flow for this so yeah lol

Hope you enjoy!!!

Quarantine cut my final year short
No may ball to celebrate the end
No leavers hoodies or yearbook
No crying on results day with friends

Quarantine cancelled work experience
Nothing for my personal statement
Nothing to help for university
Emphasising my disappointment

Quarantine finished netball early
Couldn't even finish the league
Nothing now before September
When half my closest friends will leave

Quarantine stopped me roller skating
I started teaching myself in March
I can't ride round in the house
But I'm not allowed to the park

Quarantine cut my learning short
And that's a big part of my life
When I think about how I'll never go back
To school, I very almost cry

Quarantine cancelled my holidays
No family trip to Greece this summer
No meeting the friends I've waited to see
For over a year now, a total bummer

Quarantine took the life I knew
Tore apart the world I'd built
Ripped up seeds of a future I grew
And now all I can do is rebuild

And rebuild is exactly what I will do
Because Quarantine's given me chances too
And nothings over till I'm through
I'm rising from the dust - will you?

It's been three months and I can say
That while I wish I'd still done more
I've done enough to make me smile
And still stick to these safety laws

I'm thirty three chapters through a book
And I love where it is right now
The earlier chapters need reworking
But that's fine 'cause I think I know how

I'm re-learning French and doing well
I'm back to where I was and learning more
More words and phrases than I knew
Than I was taught at school before

I'm also trying to learn guitar as well
And while I admit I haven't done a lot
It's something I hope to do more soon
I'd like it to be attempted rather than not

I've also managed to read much more
Something of which I'm proud
I love to read and read some more
And talk about those books with a crowd

It's not just me who's seen the plus side
To a life in quarantine
While negatives are always around
Nature bouncing back is beautiful to see

I've got a very rocky relationship
With the one and only quarantine itself
But if I focus on the good things
I can leave the bad things on the shelf