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“‘Reading the Pandemic” (December 2021) | A SPOKEN WORD POETRY BY: LOURENZO MANIMTIM

  Readers are leaders, and Leaders are fighters, The Coronavirus Pandemic, is a great disease, That brings destruction without cease.   Every child has a dream, a dream to be fulfilled, To long the world and liven up their dreams, Like those great stories, From the books that they read, To become a pilot, to become a doctor, To become a solder, or maybe perhaps, They can become a Jedi, or a Stormtrooper.   When the books are open the world shines, A Childs imagination flies and runs wild, For one book, travels far, A little child can go, beyond and afar, In worlds history, to the present and to the future, If a child reads, he can change and shape the world, But, when books will shut, the world ends.   The coronavirus pandemic, is the testament of these trying times, A sad reality, The great enmity of the many, A Challenge for the children of today, All schools are shut, and all learners have been displaced, Divided by life, The Digital D