Consequences

A courtesy call? How sweetly thoughtful!
How am I? Well, thank you. And how
are you? This, the extent of this new-age
conversation. At a distance, a discreet
and obligatory social and physical divide
beyond which no one should venture as
a matter of dire necessity, lest the vicious
virus that threatens humanity finds the
entrance it voraciously seeks to yet another
human interior where it plays havoc with
the immune system, handily overcomes 
the respiratory organs nature thoughtfully
designed to sustain life as much as your
beating heart and blood-flow, initiating
a sinister, rapid descent of morbidity and
yet another life is lost. That nightmare
scenario is lost on no one, and prevention
embraces physical distancing and you cannot
now hug your mother, kiss your grandchild
enjoy meals together, celebrate cardinal
events of great symbolism to hope and
renewal together in the wish that you and
they will somehow manage to survive
this suspenseful ordeal imposed upon an
unready world that misread consequences.