A fiercesome thing is lockdown,
it growls around us like a roaring
wind, that tears the fabric of lives
apart and turns the hope of Spring
into a winter of depression, and a
lesson that sows seeds in a nation
that seeks to avoid exhalation of
drops of a virus; that violently takes
from us our hopes, and fears, and
numbs the emotions with the tears,
of disempowerment and the lament
will be heard for years when still it
will bite the crust from hard earned
folks and their childrens’ hands.
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Each person of power walked a
road of holding might, and a fight
to show they meant to stop its
dividing and riding on the backs
of the innocent, who lack the test,
to show it has them in their grip
and will use them to slip through
to kill, to maim and harm as many
as it can, and monster mutations
ensure that antibodies are over-
come to win world domination.
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But the divisions and revisions;
the deciders allow doubt to slide
in, trying to slow its pace are in
every way arrogant and hesitant
and ignorant of the resistance
that an unseen enemy has been
able to choose in the absence
of the will to close our borders,
as New Zealand has done and
there the virus has no home, a
whisper and it will be shut down
because there they knew their
enemy and faced reality in time,
choosing the common good first.
