Dear ellenraes – Welcome to Writing.com. I am glad you are a part of this amazing writing community now. I enjoyed reading "Our New World"  and I am glad to offer a few of the thoughts I had while reading your poem.
 
  FIRST IMPRESSION
 
The prose suggests setting one’s mind on the Savior and not the cause. The eternal message of God it seems is not who is responsible; from the time of the Garden we know all too well who and what is responsible for sin and death, but beyond our own responsibility every day, who will we look to as the one and only one who can save? Maybe there is more to our new world than we can imagine. What we have taken for granted in the past is a good place to begin our prayers of today for repentance before the Almighty.
 
  THEME
 
There is a raging disease unleashed on a lost and dying world that shines the light on just how lost and dying the world indeed is. The light in the midst of what many people see as their darkest hour is Jesus. Every child in my Good News Club knows the answer to every question: Jesus!
 
  STRUCTURE
 
The poem is written in free form narrative prose style that focuses most of its energy in the flow of thought as though in prayer and intercession with God imparting the big answers to the most mortal of questions: What will be “Our New World.”
 
  MY FAVORITE MOMENT
 
The poem builds with superb narrative of concern that there may be a solution to an epidemic and this was my favorite moment:

Why the protests, the anger, the fear of life, blaming whom ever and whatever we please for this pandemic.

We should be on our knees and praying to the true God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to help us now and to find
us and antibiotic.

Oddly I’ve not thought to pray for an actual antibiotic, but I think this prayer is being answered as an old method of inoculation used for small pox is being introduced into the US and many other countries. Prayers for those who are giving their bodies and strength to care for the sick and dying are upper most in my prayers right now, but I will take your admonition to heart. I will also pray for the peace of “Our New World” to come.
 
 
  SUGGESTIONS
 
As a prose piece that has the singular purpose of challenging and encouraging a specific alliance with God, I believe you hit the mark straight on. My one suggestion would be introduce some imagery either Biblically or naturally to draw in more of a reader’s senses. Jesus approached many of the untouchable lepers and those with various other diseases to show the nature of His Father a thousand different ways and in the end preached a Kingdom of love that transformed so many corrupted lives. Anyway. Just a thought.

  IN SUMMARY
 
"Our New World"  takes the way of one’s thinking about the current pandemic of COVID 19 to give readers an admonition to seek the one true God for deliverance. The power is in the words of life. No word spoken or written in this hour will lose its power to resonate when the one true “New World” is revealed and many are left behind. Jesus is the answer. Thanks for sharing your gift. Write On!
 
I hope my thoughts and impressions have been a help. Let me know if you have any questions about my review.
 
Kind Regards,

♫~ Kenword~♫
 

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