Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Delta Variant - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo…

 

They say (because there’s always a “they” to say)

That a new variant has come to harry us

With death, the fear of death, the denial of death

Even along crowded corridors of death

 

Where masses stumble over war metaphors

In the torchlight of perpetual outrage

While clenching fists and chanting molossus shrieks

In their world lit only by glowing screens

 

But you and I – we have our garden to work

Children to raise, and poetry to write


And God in Whom to trust

 

(Molossus – the three-beat metre, not the dog)

(Grow up, get the jab, wear the mask, and don't yell at people.)

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