Testing for the disease continues, the disease ravages our nation,
humans lacking wisdom fall prey to ignorance, their own naïveté,
each individual chooses to wear a mask, chooses to observe rules.
Guidelines make us better people when they help us decide to help others,
reasonable people give up their time to help save lives by staying home,
embracing these guidelines does not mean we are sheep, in fact, we are shepherds,
advocates for reason, logic, intelligence, advocates for others,
the staff at hospitals and nursing homes, healthcare workers and physicians.
Angry, young protesters march for Black Lives Matter while others loot storefronts,
marking territory in their wake of broken windows and broken hearts,
energy utilized in this manner destroys communities who voice
real concerns neglected by government, police, and other officials,
inside America, poverty is rarely discussed, addressed, or seen,
create the change you want to see, end homelessness, systemic racism,
angry, young protesters have better things to do once we create justice,
no one needs to waste time protesting violence if cops do the right thing.
No one saw this virus in the making, for years, as long as nine decades,
only the scientists and doctors remember occurrences long past,
virtue varies in strength, the same for viruses, versions occur before,
epidemics arise in far away places, but now this pandemic
lingers globally, kills literally hundreds of thousands of people.
Coronavirus wears a crown but is not king or queen of the living,
orders by officials dictate our liberties, freedom or death, decide
rebel to socialize or stay inside to fight another day, survive
on little to zero income, toilet paper, lines for food, groceries,
nothing remains to buy, others stockpile, hoard goods, for the apocalypse,
ask yourself, is this how you want to live, to be selfish, cutthroat, malign,
virtue varies in strength, a spectrum of degrees from zero to hero,
if we all fall within this spectrum does it mean character defines grace,
remember the police officer with his knee on the neck of George Floyd,
understand how he lacked compassion, empathy for the black man he killed,
some would say he murdered George Floyd, they would be right, but courts of law decide.
People around the world are all in the same boat, with Noah and the Flood,
arks are built to prepare for deluge, a global disaster, pandemic,
naïveté cannot be accepted, to lose face in uncertain times
decides our character, defender of people, or destroyer of hope,
enter the President, present and accounted for lacking character,
muster the strength to act boldly, courageously, a leader of people,
in the case of Donald, the egomaniac, he prefers to play golf,
crushed by the wheel of fate, of progress, of karma, the President lost face.
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