Planet of the sick and dying.
USA land of the sick and dying
Empty roads have evolved into
Roads with constant auto accidents
It’s as if drivers are on suicide missions
People not wearing seatbelts
Thrown from vehicles and killed
Those in the lockdown who haven’t
Locked their car’s seatbelts
In decades don’t care about their own lives
They also don’t care about other’s lives.
As they are also non-mask wearers
In this the age of the corona plague
Those refusing to wear masks
Will eventually make us all have to don
Hazmat suits just to leave the house
All because wearing a mask was politicized
By a president who said the virus would
Pack up and leave us by early spring
As if it were one more immigrant he could ban,
Cage or build a wall to keep out of the country
He, later much too late states
“Nasty horrible” virus “will probably
Unfortunately get worse before it gets better.”
He is sadly, finally right about one thing
Now, infection surges, finally combated
By various new made vaccines
The virus fights back with new strains.
Each much worse than the last.
The virus was able to sneak up on us
As many were embracing being anti-science
These anti-science people are refusing vaccines
For a virus they say is a myth
Their ignorance is a virus
That welcomes Armageddon
Religious people say they don’t need
To social distance or wear a mask
Because their messiah is looking after them
News flash, the messiah is wisely in quarantine
The rich have gotten richer during the pandemic
For the rest of us, every inequity
In our economy has multiplied
The corona virus has heightened homelessness.
Destroyed human connections, our health,
Livelihoods, Increased loneliness, and made us
All fearful of our fellow man
I fear some of these impacts will be long-lasting.
No bars, no theatres, no concerts
Pleasure world is closed for now.
Now replaced with zoom and a digital community
Will things get worse?
Will these be the good old days?
Can we find optimism in these times?
In an ocean of solitude and despair
We are drifting in our own life rafts.
Can we lash them all together
Decide to work in solidarity and end up
On the island paradise of our dreams?
Be safe, be kind.
Black Uhuru: “Solidarity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9OjPQMnY7c
“The environment is changing and so are the viruses.”
― Steven Magee
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