Apr 9, 2020

1 min read

Who Is Protecting Me?

The weekends never felt so safe before.

The door locks behind me on Friday,

and I can breathe.

I don’t have to go outside for two days.

Saturdays are great.

I rest, read and write.

Sundays are about the same.

More from Melissa R. Mendelson

Horror, Science-Fiction and Dystopian Short Story Author and Poet.

Love podcasts or audiobooks? Learn on the go with our new app.

Try Knowable

Recommended from Medium

Idan Halpern

#Stayhome: How a quarantine affects your mental health and how to deal with it

UKDS Impact

What issues affecting children at ages 10–11 are most strongly linked to later mental ill health?

Seth Blais

Men Are Actually the More Sensitive Sex, Not Women

Paula Winkler

The Disruptive Element

Why Your Brain is Stressed About Workplace Reentry

Haley Whitehall

The Rock Meditation

Anu Anniah

Age of Awareness

Trapped At Home — The Old Are Becoming Lonelier

Jordan Hunnicut

I won’t generalize and say ALL of us have considered what it might be like to fall asleep…

Sea Breeze

My way to practice foreign language and care about mental health.

I am looking at so fragile future and know I can build it the way I like.

About Help Terms Privacy

Who Is Protecting Me?

More from Melissa R. Mendelson

Recommended from Medium

#Stayhome: How a quarantine affects your mental health and how to deal with it

What issues affecting children at ages 10–11 are most strongly linked to later mental ill health?

Men Are Actually the More Sensitive Sex, Not Women

Why Your Brain is Stressed About Workplace Reentry

The Rock Meditation

Trapped At Home — The Old Are Becoming Lonelier

I won’t generalize and say ALL of us have considered what it might be like to fall asleep…

My way to practice foreign language and care about mental health.

Get the Medium app

Melissa R. Mendelson

More from Medium

Spring Lover, Light a Fire in Me.

It’s Poetry

The Curse of A Beautiful Day

Maybe the Harmonic Resonance of Hearts Beating at the Same Frequency Is Love