Today’s challenge is to incorporate a metaphor…..

So I am borrowing a famous one.

Should I use it to haiku? I believe I shall.

All the world’s a stage

A new disease directs us

Fear commands the lead

Stealing from Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage

And the men and women merely players

Are we all just puppets in someone’s theater

Ants in an ant farm

 Or do we really have a purpose

Why are we here?

To be productive

To feel joy and pain

To be loved and to be devastated

To labor over jobs where the most important are often the most overlooked and disregarded

Where we pay for and applaud the most insignificant

Or is the escape they provide worth the salary they command

At this very moment perhaps it is