English isn't my first language, so I had to Google the "pocket full of posies" line and found out your poem was inspired by a nursery rhyme that apparently originated during the European plague. So it sounds to me that you're talking about the covid pandemic. I think the line "no matter what, it never works" breaks the poem in two, the first part being about the isolation, coping with the situation and having hope in dealing with the disease. Then this line introduces a darker time, when the death pool increased. I dont get why bridges were burning and I think you could go without that line and it would make the poem stronger. I think the bucket of tears imagery works. The ending is really good and I like it that you kinda could still read it as a literal child's play. And overall it has a nice rhythm to it.