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Six Feet
The faster I advance
The faster she’ll retreat
Myself and happiness
Are distanced by six feet
The world shatters
The buildings crumble
My heart beats in time
With Earth’s weak rumble
My hand outstretched
I reach for hers across the street
Alas, my effort comes to naught
Our fingers fail to ever meet
The bombs fall like rain
Rapture in a metal shell
They come from heaven above
To send us down to hell
The sun sets on life itself
The human race admits defeat
We cannot hold each other close
At a distance of six feet
The play titled Earth has ended
No one claps, the curtain falls
The stage is empty except for us
The inferno rages, the reaper calls
Tears flow forth like rivers
From the bombs I feel the heat
I mouth “I love you” silently
She fails to see me from six feet
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I wrote "Six Feet" about my mental health struggles during quarantine and in the months that followed. I use poetry as a form of self-expression, and this piece reflects much about the pain that quarantine caused me. Poetry is catharsis in my life, and this piece respresents the release of the emotions bulit up over the past six months of my life.