Fear is what brings us together on these hard days,
with this virus going about and showing everyone the true colours
with how this virus is spreading,
destroying families.

This fear we have is irrational,
but we know no better due to the facts of the media that gives us.
They think that telling us and lying to us is the best bet,
giving us false information.

Fear is something that does help us in these times,
but it also consumes us with greed.

Only helping yourself, and no one else,
thinking that this is the way to do it,
thinking that selling necessities at higher costs
is the right thing to do?

Fear is something we cannot give into,
especially in times like this.

Soldiers patrol Bethlehem now.

The Kaaba hosts no
circumambulating mustati.

The Ganges’ bathes
in its own sin and ash  
releasing no Moksha.

The Vatican quarantines
even  its Cardinals as
The Pope holds mass
to an empty St. Peter’s Square.

In Chicago, a 7-year-old girl named Heaven,
will not die today, not become  
the most expensive candy in the world,
as her mother watches her, the miracle of today,
walk all alone by herself to a closed sweet shop.