I’m crying now
These days of emergencies, sirens
Constant daily TV coverage
Escaped criminal, Covid virus
Days where people die alone
There is no other way
Breaking News alerts sound
Panic invades the human heart
High heart rates abound
Talk mitagation
Mapping the spread
City by city, country by country
Caught somehow
Human vector to human vector
By simple contact
People passing each other
Not even knowing if
They escaped its mighty path
Nor who might fall
By not hand washing enough
Touching their face again
Where a slight cough from a passerby
Where a five minute talk or standing 6 feet away
Results in a positive diagnosis
Unknowingly
Spreading to you or your daughter
Or to your neighbor
Tears stream down my face
Day and night, overwhelming and relentess
Unfolding by the hour, day-after-day
No mercy
No end in sight
How long will this last?
Before we get sick?
Before we know death?
Before we loose our wit?
