{"id":899,"date":"2020-07-28T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvesdossantos.net\/poemas\/o-virus-do-desamor\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:07:00","slug":"the-virus-of-disaffection","status":"publish","type":"poemas","link":"https:\/\/alvesdossantos.net\/en\/poemas\/the-virus-of-disaffection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virus of Disaffection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sheltered myself from the world<br \/>\nAnd look at it through the protection of my window<br \/>\nGazing without recognizing that world anymore<br \/>\nIt has become an uninhabitable place<br \/>\nFor those who have unhealed sentimental wounds<br \/>\nOr who require human contact to flourish<br \/>\nI sheltered myself from the world<br \/>\nFor an innate preservation instinct<br \/>\nI safeguard myself from what destroys<br \/>\nThe world has we used to know it<br \/>\nAnd every day we survive<br \/>\nOur way of being and living dies<br \/>\nAnd the world that resists out there<br \/>\nIs no longer the same that we used to call ours<br \/>\nThe virus of disaffection spread into the air<br \/>\nAnd while it threatens to infect all of humanity<br \/>\nFear and terror escalates<br \/>\nBut if we can&#8217;t decide if we live or die<br \/>\nWe can still choose how to live or how to die<br \/>\nDespite the fear, we can be courage<br \/>\nDespite the disbelief, we can be faith<br \/>\nDespite the destruction, we can be renewal<br \/>\nDespite the impotence, we can be solidarity<br \/>\nAnd thus despite the mortality, we will be a hymn to Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Virus of Disaffection - Alves dos Santos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alvesdossantos.net\/en\/poems\/the-virus-of-disaffection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Virus of Disaffection - Alves dos Santos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I sheltered myself from the world And look at it through the protection of my window Gazing without recognizing that world anymore It has become an uninhabitable place For those who have unhealed sentimental wounds Or who require human contact ... 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