The Covidifescent... Poem by RIC BASTASA

at death's door the uninvited comes
carrying the unusual
here is life surrendering at the end of the rope
declining what you say and what you dream
as he is done for anything and whatever
the world is doomed and humanity is expiring

nature's light is fading and more are fated
going to the facts of mortality
ill fated children and old men in their deathbeds
the woman steps on her last leg as others write
their names on the grave, ahhh, this is the time for
passing, the years of all that is perishing.