Balance Sheet Poem by John Sensele

Covid nineteen hooks
Sprang on the scene to balance books
That for too long fed inequality
Inflicting wheals of the banality

That won't drive fairness
Deepening the darkness and starkness
Where the global village
For too long drove an agenda of pillage

Of entitlements shoved aside
For too long by the suicide and fratricide
That strangled rights and plights of the majority
In vats and mats where the minority and its superiority

Devoured and deflowered seventy five percent
Of welfare and doled out a paltry cent
To the vast portion of the neglected
In circumstances and stances elected

To the detriment of the weak
In favour of the mighty who week after week
Massacred fairness to shove to the fringe
The weak who at gunpoint went on the binge

Upon gazing at the plight of medics
Who through efforts and forensics
Restored hope to the terminally ill
Who sometimes heal and seal a grace deal

Despite ravages of the pandemic feed
Summoning leaders to heed
Pleas of the downtrodden
And survive the new normal in the garden of Eden.