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Hearts Bleeding - a poem and its origin

By Phillip Coffey

Hiding from Nazi - the COVID -19 quarantine.
Taking shelter from masses in my boxed-in cove.
Kinfolk bring hot cornbread and soup cuisine.
Keep wearing your mask - It sure ain't over.

Curtail the selfish choices of others not healing.
Repeating,'think of others' never redundant.
Worldwide Pandemic of dying - hearts bleeding.
Loving and caring for others - always incumbent.

Phil shares the story behind the poem: My younger sister Deb Atwell and her husband Rick have had a very stressful month or so. Rick had knee surgery recently and then he become very ill with COVID-19. He has suffered mightily. He could not have physical therapy following surgery. Family and friends have been very helpful.


I do not know who among their friends have been able to assist them. (I know Ellen Rogers has) Love and thanks to all that have.

I visited Deborah yesterday; placing hot cornbread and a few days supply of taco soup on her porch. After I returned to my car which was located about 50 feet from her house, she come outside. She thanked me and then said -'feel like I am hiding from the Nazis'. That statement inspired me to write, "HEARTS BLEEDING."



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