To a New Dawn: Letters of Solidarity Anthology

ANASTASIA M, 14 Dear world, I am writing as Coronavirus, hoping that we shall all understand why ‘I’ am here on Earth with you.

Firstly, I came because I have had enough! Enough of you torturing your nature, your environment, your creatures.

Enough of your carelessness towards other lives. More animals are endangered, more than there have been in centuries.

However, humans just ignored this. Ignored that the grass was more littered than ever! Ignored that they did not have the fresh smell of mowed grass! Ignored that fewer birds and animals were heard and seen. Humans ignored that the world was getting too polluted. So, for their own good, I came.

Secondly, I came because I had enough of you fighting and arguing about nothing, splitting up for the most immature reasons. Entertaining yourselves with the internet, instead of your mountains. Instead of your beautiful views. I came because arguing had indeed got you far, but the wrong far. The bad far. Far, as in hatred and greed. Humans have reached a peak I thought would never occur, so I came to sort it out.

Then I came also for your families. You have forgotten about them. You thought seeing your family was sometimes even embarrassing. You took it for granted. Going to a restaurant, transfixed with your phone. Hogging your electric devices, 71