Return of
COVID-19
Like a
grade B movie from the fifties
A horror
flick no one wanted
And no one
flocked to see
Back by
unpopular demand
And
stubborn insistence
It’s
COVID-19
Killer of
the elderly
The frail
and the infirm
With a
penchant for darker skin
It strikes
by day strikes by night
Travels by
air and evades sight
It claimed
100 thousand lives
And still
got no respect
So it returns
in form
To claim
100 thousand more
No one can
say
We did not
have fair warning
It comes
like a whisper
To lead us
in mourning
We know
what to do
But we’ve
lost our patience
We’ve lost
our will and common sense
So let the
old folks go
Let the
weak fall down
Let the young
and strong
Seek solid
ground
Contrary
to wishful opinion
It did not
disappear in warmer weather
It did not
thrive on media attention
It
survived without intention
Like a
shadow in the dark
It worked
its deadly spell
On frail
and unsuspecting prey
One by one
the weak ones fell
Gone from
view it now returns
To ravage
us in light of day
And we are
left with little to do
But bow
our heads and pray
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