The Lost Eden In Corona Time

Green and wild Eden Trees and fresh air animals and freedom fields and markets money and income Flowers bloom Waters beam with life. People on the move: Planting, harvesting, Selling, earning, Studying, flying on air Hugging, shaking hands, Celebrating, speaking words to others' ears. And suddenly … Green and wild Eden Is lost for a while, driven out, changed, ruled and manipulated by its new dweller- Corona- the virus- in human lungs. By Corona, lockdowns become laws: Closing parks and zoos of Eden, closing centers of commerce. beaches; closing borders and airports, cancelling meetings, conferences and cultural shows… By Corona people are Isolated in quarantines, in hospitals or under ventilators, doomed to daily deaths by hundreds or thousands, and health workers stand among the counted dead. By Corona, the healthy ones give up their freedom to move, hug and shake hands even the freedom to hold a funeral or to be at the bedside of their dying loved ones. May the Lost Eden be recovered by common hands to work together to protect every Life of humans, animals and plants. ______________ April 28,2020 Elizabeth Padillo Olesen