When Someone Reads This.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

she was driving her car
from Ponot to Katipunan.
Today, March 26,2020
Philippine time, let it
be noted here, that what
she saw was only a checkpoint
manned by 6 military men.
The stretch was a deserted
place and you see nothing
be it a bird or a cow or
ducks or chickens.
This is the year ofcovid-19,
the virus,

please mark it, before
we all get annihilated, and
if by chance someone reads this
in 2021, or any year thereafter,
let it be noted that we all were
once alive, happy and hopeful.