KINGS' EYE: Quarantine (A.Y. 2020-2021)

WILL IT EVER END?

by Charlize Janeth T. Alvarez

The sky is clear, and there is enough time to spare. It is a beautiful day and a perfect time to write. Or is it? Because it’s been a year, and she’s been stuck within the four corners and green-painted walls of her room. The col- or of nature should help her think, but there’s just nothing in her mind but endless questions that’s been keeping her up all night as she stares at the ceiling, her eyes wanting to punch a hole, touch the stars, and ask them, when will this end? She wants to escape, but there’s war outside. And it’s as if they’re prisoners kept within boxes disguised as the

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