I wrote a poem recently about my feelings of staying cooped in home during quarantine. I’ve included several literary devices, such as imagery, personification and similes, to add more depth to my writing and so that you readers can better understand what I wish to convey. This is a little off-course from what I usually do, but I hope you enjoy it!
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It’s for the past 3 months that we’ve been cut off,
And to stay at home we must.
The hours seem to melt away
Like ice on a hot summer day
There’s not much to say about what I do
It’s not very colourful, or very bright
It’s not very happening it’s just plain white
And it’s hard to find a little light, as the days turn into nights
But what happens in my mind is oh so different
I’ve begin to wonder with every passing moment
What I would have done now
If we weren’t home bound
I’ve grown as a person
To say it in simple words
What once seemed big now seems small
And what once seemed small now seems big
I think about school and it thinks about us
For it remembers the children that laughed and played
The children who worked so hard
And together we cherish the memory
Staying alone is hard on us all
And there’s no one to place the blame upon
Tick tock, goes the clock above
As I begin to realize that this time isn’t enough
And I want to spend time with those I care about
Because you never know when you’ll see those people again
I’ve become closer to family, but farther from friends
But you need both in order to smile
It riddles my thoughts
As to what’s true and what’s not
I’m combing through books left and right
Looking for the happy ending I can’t yet see
And even though I don’t prefer this quarantine
I realise that I’m still quite lucky
That I have such splendid company
And that I’m not suffering as much as other people might
Somewhere inside the mist has finally cleared
And I can see past the haze
And in this process, I wonder how my life would have been
If things had been differently placed
