Imagine (if you can)
Imagine you live in a single room
Share a toilet and shower with ten others
Imagine people knock on your door – 10pm, 2am, 5am – whenever
Keep banging until you’re awake
Imagine this scares you
After you escaped from a violent partner to here
Each bang tightening your chest
Making your heart race
Imagine your only respite
Is getting through the day
Going to classes, walking
Visiting family – mum and dad, children
Imagine how important these things would be to you
The only reasons to keep you going
The only things to get you through the nights
The point of being alive
Imagine this was all taken away from you
No respite
No walking, no family
Children getting bigger every day without mum
Now, can you imagine
This being your reality?
This being your life?
You are staying in a homeless B&B when covid19 strikes
You are now stuck in your room
Can’t bear to leave for exercise
Isolated, depressed
What’s the point?
Imagine you don’t need to imagine –
Imagine this is your life
