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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Dark Reflections
in the Covid 19 mirror</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">C By Brad Corallo
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">word count 230</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">piece
describes</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">the history of how</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">we got here. </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The supposition<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">is that something went wrong. </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Maybe it is that we have not developed enough. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Maybe we have to pass the test<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">that we are meant to survive in the world . </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Deep in the
mists of history</font></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">something went
terribly wrong.</font></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Growing from
falsehoods and cowardice. </font></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Out of necessity,
we became nomads.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Food, water and
the seasons dictated our regular migrations.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Such was our
conception of time. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">With our combined
efforts,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">we slew wild
beasts for sustenance.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We drank of the
rivers without fear. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We breathed the
air of the new morning.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We gave thanks
for the annual regeneration of the Earth. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">A very nice stanza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">It is very poetic, particularly</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">in the use of the r sound. </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">In time, we
learned to grow edible plants.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We made alliance
with wolves and wildcats.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">If such had only
been enough! </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Being in balance with nature is part of the way we
need to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">bee. </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We have to learn to stem our yearning for power
ande dominance. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And though
ultimately, we developed civilization,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">the falsehoods
and cowardice were still with us.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As centuries
passed,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">we explored many
realms , dark and strange. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We haven’t learned to quell our darker nature.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Or, better than that, we haven’t learned to
integrate it.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">assembled a religion from power differentials.</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I think the meaning of powered differentials needs
to be defined.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We crystallized
into unnumbered meaningless subgroups.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We developed
ingenious weapons</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">and fought
endlessly among our selves. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some of us have learned to live with others. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Maybe more now than ever. </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">But we are still existing while the undeveloped
ones thrive.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some had visions
and some dreamed dreams;</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">vague whispers
about a better way of living.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">They were largely
ignored! </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Not entirely.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">In time we
invented ways of destroying ourselves.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Almost blithely,
we fouled the waters and poisoned the air.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Don’t forget<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">about people like Gretta Thornburg.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">Some of us are crying out to be heard.</font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And here we are
today,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">cowering like
worms in our dwellings.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Masks covering
our faces like criminals.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Hiding from
something we can't even see.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">If we pulled together, we could have beaten the
plague.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We haven’t got that far., </font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">I have
hopes.</font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And wondering
sorrowfully, what has happened to our world?</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Perhaps, this
question is a bit late in coming! </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Never to late..</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="mailto:jamesstarfire@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">jamesstarfire@gmail.com</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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