Inequity

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES

Inequity

 

He does not deserve this indignity

He does not deserve this disgrace

When a man of honor is victimized

The house of equity is out of place

 

We may look back on this day

And despise those who did not care

Enough to compromise their freedom

Bringing our right to life to bear

 

Are they so blind to the consequence

Of giving the virus room to grow

Of refusing to listen to science

Of being proud not to know

 

You’ve taken too many mothers and fathers

You’ve taken too many sons and daughters

The great pandemic should be over

But you believed in four-leaf clovers

 

Go away and take your family

Go away and take your friends

Thanks to you the plague lives on

Thanks to you there is no end