"And People Stayed Home" The Poem That Inspires the World
Although the poem is officially untitled, once it went viral across all social medium channels, the people on the internet have titled it “And the People Stayed Home” by Irish-American poet and former teacher Kitty O’Meara. The first prose written and inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, the poem hits home (no pun intended) to basically everyone around the world. It reads like an open diary about survival, compassion, spirituality, strength, intuitiveness, integrity and kindness.
"It offers a story of how it could be, what we could do with this time," O'Meara tells OprahMag.com of her viral work.
I consider this to be the first Robert Frost and Maya Angelou prose of our time, time being the era of Coronavirus. Reading this poem over and over gives me confidence to believe that we will get through this catastrophe and become more creative, more good-willed and hopefully more conscientious of self-care. Years and a hundred years from now, we will as well as our grandchildren and next generations will read this poem and know what life was once like.
