by Watuur
Quiet, the sound of nothingness, enough to put a baby to sleep. The thick darkness with only grey, vague, unknown characters in the distance. Emotion, emotions of agony, regret, anger, and disappointment, bottled up. Not felt but heard and seen in the pitch black room, unbearable to watch and hear. Tears coming rolling down from your face heard smacking the ground. Drip drop, drip drop, with the slightest blink of an eye the dark wretched room turned into a beautiful room. A room irresistible to not look around. Trees tall as the clouds, dogs and horses running and playing with one another in the fields. Exotic fish and dolphins swimming synchronized as if they're one, your friends walking side by side with you talking and laughing with each other.
With the slightest look up everything was blue. The sky, the trees, the animals, the people, everything down to the tiniest molecule. The gorgeous shade of cobalt blue brought a thick cloud of sorrow and sadness. The sadness in people’s eyes glistened as if they were stars dancing in the sky. Telling their pain as if it were a movie and you're sitting in the front row of the theater. Nothing, the sound of emptiness surrounds you taking the blue world with it. Pit pat, pit pat the quietest footstep of you running is heard. Loud thoughts of “I gotta get out of here, fast back to the real world to my friends and family,” as if you're screaming it to the corrupted blackness. Too late, too late just by meer seconds to escape the darkness. Engulfed by the thick cloud of nothingness.
Drip drop, drip drop, once more the sound of tears falling is heard. The vague creatures are running toward you. “3 seconds, I have 3 seconds to run.” you think to yourself. You don’t move, just cry, tears flow down your face. Taken by the darkness filled with sorrow and regret.
All of sudden the light appears, you're back walking with your friends. Not in that amazing colorful world, but the real one, walking toward school. The pain, anger, and sorrow is gone. You feel happy and colorful in the world with many colors, light and dark, many kinds of emotion, love and hate, and many people, white and black, all colors. You're just happy to be back in a beautiful world with Color.
by -J
How paradoxical to think how only a week ago the off-white colored halls of school were erupting with careless jokes about our impending doom. Viewed as yet another “harmless” topic that gained popularity overnight. Lines blurred in the thick of the essential details and the false news on social media which ignited a blazing flame of controversy and confusion. The rapid spread from country to country seemed to be camouflaged even when the problem was right in front of our faces. Some disregarded the severity of it all while others produced endless conspiracies. Weeks elapsed as everyone waited for it to pass. But then those weeks turned into months and nothing was resolving, instead the issue was progressing worse. But yet again it was brushed off. It doesn't affect us so why should we care? Everyone was oblivious. Even though the warning signs were there. Wash your hands more. Take a survey; who has access to the internet at home? Still the nonsensical jokes grew. No one truly opened their eyes. We collected the red flags like flowers until we were left with a bouquet. But then the universities closed superseded by the schools, #coronacation, right guys!? Now we get to sleep in and stay home, we’ll be back soon! But then the numbers grew. Hundreds of deaths overnight. States on quarantine. Trips canceled. Celebrities affected. Then the world decided to irrevocably wake up. But consternation clouded common sense as the shelves in stores became more empty than full and masks shielded peoples faces. We were all slowly sinking in quicksand and we just now actualized. So we’ve ended up where we are now; only the essential can work, places shut down, go out if absolutely necessary, If not, stay home. It makes you wonder if you retrace all of the steps, how many times did we let this pandemic slide? How many casualties did we overlook? How many affected countries did we brush off? How much time did we give it to create such a severe dilemma before we started taking action? It was nothing but a silly joke. Until it wasn’t a joke anymore, it was our life. But the truth is even now, some people still don’t care. They’re waiting for it to subside. So all I catechize of you is, stay safe and realize that even the most bizarre “what ifs” can develop into reality.
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