CORONA VIRUS, UNSEEN ANYWHERE,
CAUSING COVID 19 -DEATH EVERYWHERE,
FAST IS IT’S SPREAD
FASTER HUMANS FALL DEAD.
THE WORLD STANDS FROZEN,
AT THE DEATHS, IN BAKER’S DOZENS,
OF THE VICTIMS, UMPTEEN SUCH DOZENS
AND MORE DEATHS IN MANY MORE SUCH DOZENS.
DOZENS ARE NOTHING BUT A COUNT
USED WHEN CASUALTIES ARE COUNTABLE,
BUT THE COVID DEATHS ARE COUNTLESS,
NOT AT ALL COUNTABLE IN DOZENS ON ANY COUNT.
COVID 19, CASUALTIES ARE A NEW KIND
A STAGGERING KIND
A COMMUNICATIVE KIND
INFECTIOUS KIND.
MORE OF A FATAL KIND,
A KILLER OF A FAST KIND.
LIKELY TO CAUSE THE ERASURE OF MANKIND
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, THE ENTIRE MANKIND.
COVID 19 KILLS FASTER THAN ITS SPREAD, SURE
AND MAN, IN HIS SHORTENED EXPECTANCY OF LIFE SURE
AS THE COVID19 DEATHS OUT-NUMBER THE HUMAN BIRTH, SURE.
WHICH SPELLS THE END OF THE SPECIES CALLED MAN, SURE
THE WORLD IS USED ONLY TO THE KIND
OF CASUALTIES IN WAR, SEVERE, FIERCE KIND,
AND ONLY BETWEEN COUNTRIES, THE COMMON KIND,
BUT COVID ATTACK IS OF A DIFFERENT KIND.
NOT LIKE, BETWEEN COUNTRIES, THE COMMON KIND,
BUT STRANGELY, NOT AGAINST LIVING BEINGS OF ALL KIND,
BUT ONLY AGAINST THE MANKIND.
A RARE “BIO-ATTACK”, AGAINST THE MANKIND.
VEHICLES, AMBULANCES DASH CRISS-CROSS,
THE WORLD ACROSS
WITH COVID19 PATIENTS THEY DASH
TO HOSPITALS THEY DASH.
TO SAVE A LIFE FROM SURE DEATH, THEY DASH.
BUT COVID 19, FASTER THAN THE AMBULANCE, DASHES
TO BEAT THE AMBULANCE’S NOBLE MISSION
AS IF, VYING TO OUT-EDGE IT’S MISSION.
COVID 19 SUCCEEDS IN ITS MISSION
TO DEFEAT THE AMBULANCE’S NOBLE MISSION
IT’S FASTER IN ITS SPEED
THAN THE AMBULANCE’S SPEED.
MANY MANY PATIENTS PICKED UP ALIVE
REACHING THE HOSPITAL, SHOCKINGLY NO MORE ALIVE.
COVID 19’S, LIGHTNING STRIKE, A BLITZKRIEG
YES, IT’S PURE AND SIMPLE, A BLITZKRIEG.
AMBULANCES RETURN SILENT, WITH THE DEAD
PACKED LIKE SARDINES, THE DEAD.
NO MORE THE WHEEZING THERE
NO MORE THE STRUGGLING THERE
NO MORE THE ALARMING SIREN OF THE AMBULANCE, THERE
NO MORE ITS DESTINATION ANY HOSPITAL, ANYWHERE
NO MORE ITS JOURNEY AT BREAK-NECK SPEED, SURE
BUT A SLOW, MELANCHOLIC ONE TO THE CEMETERY, SURE
SO MOVES THE PROCESSION SLITHERING FORWARD
THE DEAD, WITH NO VISION, NO DREAMS, OF LIFE, TO LOOK FORWARD
EXCEPT TO ADD A LINK EACH TO THE LONG CHAIN OF HISTORY
FOR THE CADAVERS, TO BE PART OF HISTORY.
THE COUNTRIES OF THE WEST,
THINK, FAR ADVANCED THEY ARE, THAN THE EAST,
BOAST OF THEIR STOCK OF MODERN WEAPONRY
TO CONQUER THE WORLD, IN THEIR ARMOURY.
THEY ARE USED TO THE FIGHTS BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES,
CALLED WAR, BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES,
A WELL PREPARED FIGHT BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES,
IN TUNE WITH THE MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE COUNTRIES.
BUT THE CORONA VIRUS TO THEM IS LIKE A GORILLA ATTACK,
SUDDEN FROM AN UNEXPECTED CORNER AN ATTACK,
WEAPONS ARE UTTERLY USELESS AGAINST THE ATTACK
AGAINST THE MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS’ ATTACK.
ONLY MEDICINES CAN CURE OR PREVENT THE ATTACK.
THE WEST AREN’T PREPARED FOR THIS KIND OF AN ATTACK
AS THEY LONG GAVE UP THEIR INDIGENOUS PRODUCTIONS
AND NOW UNABLE TO RE-START AT SHORT NOTICE, THE PRODUCTIONS.
FOR CHEAP LABOUR, THEY OUTSOURCED THEIR PRODUCTIONS
TO THE LABOUR- CHEAP COUNTRIES IN THE EAST,
AN IDEA FOR THEM ECONOMICALLY BEST.
BUT AN IDEA FOR THEM, EXISTENTIALLY THE WORST.
NOW THE COUNTRIES OF THE WEST IN DILEMMA
NOT EQUIPPED TO GET RID OF THE COVID 19 DILEMMA,
FOR THEY FELL INTO THEIR OWN INESCAPABLE, SELF MADE, SNARE
AN OBVIOUS ACT OF HINDSIGHT, A SNARE.
THE WEST SHOULD HAVE ACTED WITH FORESIGHT.
IN THE PRODUCTION OF LIFE-SAVING MEDICINES WITH FORESIGHT
BEFORE ACTING WITH HINDSIGHT
OUTSOURCING THEIR PRODUCTION SANS ANY FORESIGHT
THEY LOOK NOW, HOPEFULLY TO THE EAST
FOR THE ARTICLES THEY ARE BADLY IN NEED, FROM THE EAST
FOR THE EAST COULD EASILY MEET THE WEST, THEIR URGENT NEEDS
THE MEDICINES AND THE PROTECTIVE GEARS, FOR THEIR PRESSING NEEDS
NOW, THE WEST LOOK FOR THE LARGESSE OF THE EAST.
AS IF, THE FIRST TIME THEY TACITLY ADMIT DEFEAT.
AS IF, THE FIRST TIME ADMIT THE EAST
A FORCE TO RECKON WITH, BY THE WEST.
THOSE ILL-FATED COUNTRIES OF THE WEST,
LAG BEHIND, WITH BATED BREATH IN THEIR CHEST,
LOOKS UTTERLY HAPLESS, FORLORN,
DESTINED TO WEEP AND WEEP ALONE.