Poems that matter

Distanced together

thanks to @Vamprixussa for inspiring this poem :)

Distanced together

A mask hides a thousand faces

An assassin spread over many places

A family lost

For the world a high cost

Disease tightens its laces

In times of old, the poor would weep

Wide awake worried with no sleep

Many would die

The children would cry

The loved ones we could not keep

Times are hard, just as before

Far apart and something more

An eternal home for those to rest

Carried to man by a lowly pest

A world rocked to its core

Power is humbled by the smallest of things

Unaware of what tomorrow brings

Not one to blame

A global game

To the old world he clings

The promise of hope is fleeting

More kind hearts stop beating

Apart but near

Never seems too clear

Stop the fat cats from cheating

To handle it varies to feel

Many people are wary to heal

The cracks abound

A plague around

Scared enough to reel

Love is eternal, death is not the end

History has many twists and bends

Bloodlust or fret

None is the threat

Our worst enemy tends

Nature unleashes another trick

Possibly karma or possibly sick

A bat or rat

A tit for tat

A jab from a small prick

Infect the world with a blind truth

Infect the mind and affect the youth

In memory of those

The virus chose

Never forget but sooth

We all lose, but we also gain

Making the world less mundane

Young and old

Bought or sold

A germ is never tame

It has no mind to think

Lives tossed down the sink

No soul to question

The death horn beckon

Slender and sly as a mink

We live in sorrow for those we have left

Optimistic but filled with dread

The time will pass like you and I

Disease will die, for history to fly

Not enough yet enough has been said

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