COVID COMES

The POTUS said “Don’t worry,

It’s only just the flu.”

For youth it seemed his story

Was close to being true.

 

But for it’s older quarry

We found that he had lied,

As many a mortuary filled

With seniors who had died.

 

Donald claimed “We're on it”

“Gone, by June” he said,

And then we saw it growing

With freezers full of dead.

 

The hope is for a vaccine,

It’s coming so they say,

And we may someday get it

If in our homes we stay.

 

We’re waiting now for Pfizer

Before the covid comes,

To take our lovely life from us

To leave us cold and dumb.

 

Now variants are spreading

More dangerous we hear,

Our masks and social distancing

Can’t shield us from our fear.

 

We’re yearning for a little shot

T’will take away our fears,

And give us hope, for all we want,

A few more living years.

 

We share the joy of others

Who have had that happy jab,

To know they're safe, at least for now,

From an untimely slab.

 

I’m anxious for the Vaccine

To liberate my mind,

To sleep in quiet peaceful dreams

To leave this horror behind.

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Copyright February 2020, by Theodore “Tod” Lundy, Architect