Sunday, 27 December 2020

Lockdown (2020)

 We must bear witness!


The centre cannot hold

And neither can the periphery


The countryside is a ghost town

And the city has lost its buzz


We learn that pasta

Is more important than caviare

And toilet paper, more than common sense


That nations which are so good at killing

Are no good at saving lives


That no one is essential, except everyone,

The nurse & the grocer, the doctor & the trucker,

One for All and All for None


We must bear witness!

To the Age of Ozymandias

And evening diyas and orange toupees


We've been foolish, but knowing we have been

Is half the battle won..


We must bear witness!


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