Communication In Days Of Great Trepidation (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

Some people think they can withhold the absolute truth
from adults, old people and the youth,

distort the true facts as racism and twist it
to suit their agenda bit by tiny bit,

where from China the virus comes deadly,
do now affect all of humanity

and the communist Chinese
did not say a word and lived at ease,

while to every nation it did spread
and left far too many Chinese people dead,

while the Chinese communist regime
did not have any kind of scheme,

but it's religion, communism, did fail
as all own efforts at first to stop it was of no avail.

The virus says I will make people deadly ill,
as many as I possibly can I will kill

and for it millions now must be scanned.
Two other poets can ask to have me banned

for stating that it was not in China contained,
that as a treat to all human life it has remained,

for this honest open truth reporters can yell,
without manners cause all kinds of hell,

without really asking questions try to indoctrinate
\and all human liberties to violate,

but of Chinese communist incapability this thing reeks
and here I am locked-down for five weeks,

stripped from all normal kinds of liberty
while a thing from China haunts me,

do kill my countrymen, leave people unemployed,
leave economies and businesses destroyed
and suddenly changes every single thing
as it affect human life and even existing,

but in all this God's mercies I do see
where He still acts with great capability.