Then Space Began to Toll
I feel a distance between us one that was never there before the cruelty of it all … and I’ve tried to put into words but in the madness our souls are laid bare and there is a distance between us and a loneliness beyond compare.
And what are we to do? If I took it upon myself, the burden would be far too much to bear, and if I were to indulge myself, I may be lost in despair, but if I could just – … all we can do is wait, if we have the time.
Jad Youssef Doumani is a 23-year-old Lebanese student living in the UK. He is currently a graduate student at the Queen Mary University of London where he is pursuing an MA in international relations. “With this poem I wanted to capture both the alienation felt by those of us in isolation and our inability to comprehend the madness and cruelty of the pandemic at hand. Here, the poem’s stream-of-conscious style mirrors the loss for words and inability to reconcile emotions that have emerged with the tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic.”
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