I Wish Our Lives So Much Different To Be (Sonnet Sequence) Poem by Gert Strydom

I am waiting months for a thing in the mail
and people are down to daily living in fear
while there is just sad news that we do hear:
of being infected by a virus that do others ail

and with too many patients hospitals fail,
while people are afraid others are too near,
as governments scramble for the right gear
and it seems that the virus will prevail,

while we are down to standing in lines,
as we do live in a time of a nightly curfew,
cooperation to the government are giving,
are prohibited from cigarettes and wines.
Restricted freedom is not something new:
if in communism and China we are living.

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If in communism and China we are living:
we are down to wearing facial masks,
with state control in almost everything,
trying to stick to the government's tasks.

I am down to remembering the times
and the things that we together did do
while the morning news is full of crimes
and right now I am so terribly missing you,

learn about a beautiful girl hanging in a tree,
the police are asking for information about it
and I wish our lives so much different to be
while this virus is causing havoc bit by bit

but to me as a woman you are the one and only
while apart from each other we do remain lonely.