Risible Rationalization Poem by John Sensele

Covid crippled complacency
Calling for deeper human decency
To build back greener
Making thought processes better and cleaner

As unity we don't undermine
When greater diversity we mine
To prevent the onslaught of isolationism
Fed and made worse by parochialism

Cyclopes develop and envelop
In egregious efforts that elope
With fragmented trade
And its regimented grade

We scoop in haughty hoop
Dancing in a loop
Where division races to the front
And collaboration dies upfront

On altars of protectionism
Where the pandemic feeding on our schism
Whips to death humankind
Cos leaders have grown more unkind

Their focus gripped by the rearview mirror
In which they summersault inerror
Firmly believing they reform the world health organization
When in reality they feed risible rationalization.