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Tunnel

To one who had just landed on this Earth,

The "tunnel" metaphor would seem bizarre.

"Light at the end?" But which light? Which tunnel?

A vaccine's like a freedom fighter's mind,

Kick-started after dormant for a while;

Targeting cold-blooded rooftop snipers,

Grown complacent from their easy conquests.

We think that it's over; it may well be.

But somewhere the beast lurks: throbbing, planning

Upcoming fruits of its skilled enterprise,

Its wake-up call, its next gift to the world.

 

 

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 7th Dec 2020 17:17

Thanks to all for the comments and the likes. I desperately want the vaccine when it becomes available and am in awe of the scientists who have made it possible, but I think the "light at the end of the tunnel" metaphor has become a bit too much of a cliché (one I use myself, I might add).
Life is too complicated to be reduced to the difference between night and day. I'm tempted to talk of "shades of grey" but that's too much of a cliché as well.

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J.D. Bardo

Sun 6th Dec 2020 18:35

There is a light at each end of the tunnel, Trains speeding right for us that are stuck in the middle of the tunnel.

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