Pandemic Times

Yes - I did state that 

"no single soul" 

is all that exclusively special 

to warrant a spotlight 

on any sort of 

necrological site ~ 

but unusual times make for 

unusual -exceptional- cases... 

R.I.P. Dr. Lorna Breen 

Not since the 1918 Spanish Flu 

has the world been under the grip 

of a disease that paralyzes it 

in its whole - economically, 

socially and also, truth be told, 

it is stopped dead in its tracks 

(expression carefully chosen here) 

on its own self-destructive path 

ecologically and planetary-wise... 

Amidst all that has happened 

-numerous deaths in Italia, Spain again, 

China where it all began this time 

and the USofA, its new epicenter- 

a tragedy among the heroes of these events; 

the first responders - doctors, nurses, 

healthcare workers... 

The Essentials, shall we call them? 

A tragedy... by self-destruction. 

What were the odds, however, 

of finding another Lorna Breen 

singing the most appropriate of songs 

for this dire circumstance 

on the very same YouTube, now:   

And let us hope that there will not be 

any other similar tragedies - 

not namesake Dr. Lorna Lopez 

not anybody else 

among these first responders/

true heroes out there... 

those who deal with all the epidemics 

that afflict all of humanity - on a daily basis: 

For this is not the first pandemic 

we will be facing - 

meaning it will not be the last one either.