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Are You Alive?
How will I know
If the virus has taken you Down?
If I keep calling you
Your phone will ring and ring
Until the number is as silent as you
To hold on
I will pretend you can't pay your bill
I will pay your bill
Just to keep hope alive
Even if you no longer are
How will I know?
I'll write you a poem
Every day you don't answer me
And imagine you reading
Every line of my rhyme
Maybe you are just mad at me
That's better than accepting the truth
Be angry at me
And let your feelings reach me
Be quiet, be still
but still be alive
How will I know?
If the virus has taken you Down?
If I keep calling you
Your phone will ring and ring
Until the number is as silent as you
To hold on
I will pretend you can't pay your bill
I will pay your bill
Just to keep hope alive
Even if you no longer are
How will I know?
I'll write you a poem
Every day you don't answer me
And imagine you reading
Every line of my rhyme
Maybe you are just mad at me
That's better than accepting the truth
Be angry at me
And let your feelings reach me
Be quiet, be still
but still be alive
How will I know?
Published 1st Apr 2020
Author's Note
Keep in touch with internet friends please! We don't get the obituaries from your hometown paper, let alone know where your hometown really is. In many ways we are mysteries to each other, but we still care. We value our friends here even though most of us never have spoken. Some only sign on occasionally and we long for your return. The possibility of death is ever present but especially so now. Consider the hearts of those you care about and message a friend who cares about you...
JJ
JJ
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Anonymous
1st Apr 2020 8:45pm
Bravo JJ......luving this.......I had this thought the other day.......actually many times when I don’t see souls on......hope you’re keeping well and safe.......purple luv & hugs xo :)
1st Apr 2020 9:19pm
So glad to hear from you G! Your purple light is always a welcome beacon to my soul. Doing my best here and keeping my social distance from everyone... . (((Hugs))) from a distance!
JJ
JJ
2nd Apr 2020 00:02am
That's true, Poetryman. I worry too as some friends overseas have not been in contact lately. I hope they are well. Keep safe, JJ.
2nd Apr 2020 5:12am
Thank you Grace! I hope you stay safe as well! No matter where the people we care for are, it is worrisome when we lose touch and don't know how to contact them. I have about a dozen friends here on dup that I know of no other was to contact who I will worry about for as long as they don't sign on. I have a half dozen who I know their phone number and will call them soon if they don't sign on soon. Some are friends on facebook and many of those I have been in contact with on there, and that's just my dup friends. So many family and friends do not use facebook so I have to call them. I've been contacting many to be sure they are ok. But the ones that don't answer, the ones who don't sign in on line, it will be impossible not to feel concerned...
JJ
JJ
2nd Apr 2020 6:06am
2nd Apr 2020 2:38am
It is weird, having these connections with anonymous souls.... I trust we'll all recognize each other on the other side, if it comes to that.
Still fine here.
Still fine here.
2nd Apr 2020 5:23am
Good to hear you are fine. I've been on te internet since around 1995 and have made so many on line friends I have never met or talked to, but nevertheless I feel close to anyway. Mostly poetry friends from various websites that vanished over time. I miss so many that I never had another way to communicate with when the sites disappeared. So when I make a good friend I try to be sure to give them an alterate way tocommunicate. I understand that it can be dangerous to give too much info to people who are strangers, but after a while, people you meet on line are not much different to ones you meet at the library or super market. I'm a social creature so for me it feels weird to not keep in touch. And I'm a big worrier...
JJ
JJ
5th Apr 2020 3:53am
For a second I thought it'd be a love interest but in the grand scheme of things you've said something very true. We don't know how bad this is getting, everyday the numbers keep going higher. Sending emails, texts and notes to loved ones are the best things we can do for now.
It's great reminder of the good that comes out in us during these hard times.
Be safe.
It's great reminder of the good that comes out in us during these hard times.
Be safe.
