Quarantine for Covid!

I didn’t know I would face quarantine for COVID!

Just yesterday

I laughed at your jokes

You laughed at mine.

The trees swayed in the early morning breeze

As light rain fell on the rooftops

I noticed none of these.

Just yesterday

you dropped me at work

I kissed our daughter goodbye as you drove off

I didn’t turn back as I looked forward to the day

I wish I had, the memory won’t go away.

Plopped my stethoscope on my neck

My attention was now for my patients

I would give them my best today

Like I had sworn to do

Yes, nurse bring him in

Hello sir, how do you do?

Yesterday’s gone, oh how It hurts to recall

The sudden realisation, the panic, the phone calls.

Shut in this room with only one window

Colleagues in strange suits, keeping a distance

I see the fear in their eyes

I can barely see their hands.

Will I see you again?

Our daughter…oh the pain

(This post was initially written during the Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria. Dedicated to all Frontline health workers that faced quarantine for COVID pandemic)