Periwinkle
Death walks into our hospital corridors uninvited. It sneers the living, who do all they can to save lives and walks away with its prey. Some very calm and peaceful and some with tremendous pain. Some almost in an instance and some day by day. My pen fails to justify the moans of the dying and the shrieks of the beloved watching their own depart. Who doesn't want a beautiful ending to their story; a dignified death - a death where you would have your loved ones at your bed side. Those final moments that you bestow your loved ones with; by just being beside them in their final strides of their journey on earth. But when death walks into your house by the name of Covid-19, it humiliates the very concept of a dignified death. A death where the moans of the dying goes unheard by the beloved whose shrieks are silenced by the stigma of the disease. Death walks into our corridors uninvited. It sneers the living and snatches its prey. Periwinkle is commonly called...