COVID 19 It’s The Worst That We’ve Seen

COVID 19

It’s The Worst That We’ve Seen

We sit huddled together at home

Warned by authorities not to roam.

With so many people out of work and distraught,

Then for our fractured nation, a fix must be sought   

Congress meets, trying hard to decide

How to be fair to those cast aside.

Will all off its talk bring about a solution

Or will what we hear simply be noise pollution?

Our attention soon turns to one another

But being together so much, “O Brother!”

Now look back to our families, sticking it out,

Not knowing at all how this came about

We can’t go it alone for the most part

We must stay connected to each other’s heart

Knowing togetherness is here to stay

Some search for a new board game to play.

Librarians with whom I have spoken

Tell me they are quite simply heartbroken

To see how many people have only found the will

To open a book since they’ve so much time to kill

We’re social distancing and quarantining,

Until human contact has scarcely any meaning.

We do almost everything all those authorities ask,

Even if it means wearing a home made face mask.

Others sit down to write about this virus

Searching at length for some muse to inspire us.

COVID 19

It’s the worst that we’ve seen