Mary Kate

Quarantine

We are living our lives around Microsoft Teams, 

Waiting for assignments to be posted,  

Wishing it were our dreams 

That this chaos was hosted  

 

We miss our friends, 

We miss our teachers. 

Never thought we would say the words 

“I miss school bleachers.”  

 

It has been three weeks. 

I’m already going insane 

From each and every squeak 

That escapes my brain. 

 

Target runs, 

Starbucks cups, 

It’s all in crumbs. 

I can’t even buy new makeups. 

 

“Death by Quarantine 

Will read the front page 

If I don’t get to see my choir team 

Upon that school stage. 

 

I don’t miss school. 

I don’t mind staying home. 

But this time is cruel. 

I can’t even roam. 

 

Everything is canceled. 

No more fun. 

All I do is give homework answers 

I still don’t have done.  

 

I may never see some friends again. 

And if that’s so, 

It is that fate I will curse against 

And let my tears flow.