The Deadly Virus Bares The Very Name Poem by Gert Strydom

It's nice to call the American president a racist,
to hide behind political innuendoes and propaganda,
while the real culprits who did spread death worldwide
still run free and without any remorse go on with life.

It's nice to talk and act with relative truth
(with lies that cover-up that do replace the blame) ,
when the absolute truth is so very self-evident
and to which the COVID-19 virus bares its very name.

It's extremely useful to call on help
from those from whom this very virus came,
to twist facts as if in that overpopulated place
this unseen deadly thing is now at rest,

while right there thousands do still pay the price
of a social system (a religion if you will) ,
that they do believe cannot fail
and yet world wide this thing of death do still prevail,

do many hundreds of thousands suddenly ail,
do so silently suddenly kill
that the entire world now is locked-in
and do not know when a normal life will begin.

[Poet's note:China Originating Viral Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID19) .]
© Gert Strydom