Monday, January 3, 2022

COVID Conundrum


Two thirds of the restive population anywhere

in the world where COVID has rampaged

remains compliant while the remainder is defiant

the former convinced on unassailable evidence

that this invisible predator is fully capable of 

diminishing opportunities for survival normally 

taken for granted -- while the latter scoffs at the 

timidity of their peers over the presence of yet

another cold virus that has enabled governments 

to ride rough-shod over civil rights. Global deaths

of millions, hospitals stretched beyond their limits

endless cycles of shut-downs, crumbling commerce 

drowning state economies in emergency pledges 

of financial rescue, figments all of over-active 

imaginations, ploys by governments to wrest control 

over the placid governed. Protests and riots 

mounted by the vociferous few against the fearful 

many as COVID-wrought chaos reigns supreme 

in a global challenge: nature vs human nature. 



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