The Dragon (Continues) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after WH Auden)

1 The image of the Beast (Swannet)

The deadly dragon stands among the dead and desperate openly
where it lacks compassion or a conscience common to man
plan to subjugate, rule and ruin wherever it possibly still can
regulate and try spreading its false religion in mere stupidity,

stalks among those that serve it in the greatest kind of fear
but what is the honest absolute truth it cannot comprehend,
those that appose it, it silently put to an awful kind of end
stalks still closer with consuming fire try to get very near

and in a catastrophe it's science and technology lags behind,
while utter gibberish with drivel and nonsense run from its lips,
as its evil demonic black death-bringing wings it continually flips,
with amok within or complacency it kills the spirit soul and mind.

The deadly dragon stands among the dead and desperate openly,
regulate and try spreading its false religion in mere stupidity,

.2 (COVID-19)During lock-down in South Africa (Swannet)

With government hospitals and clinics run in incompetence
amid a lock-down that strip man from almost all kind of liberty
in China and Cuba the government do its great salvation see,
it attacks the USA(superior in technology)and commonsense,

where out of China the virus comes, its communist technology lags behind,
with a lock-down / quarantine in place the regime fears a coming common flue
while the Corona virus do silently effect the population as if out of the blue,
the government with its propaganda tries to kill the spirit soul and mind,

with snapping jaws agape COVID-19 crunches at all other things,
the most superior research scientist is quickly silently slain by it,
while from China it slays desperate man bit by tiny little bit,
do fly worldwide with evil demonic black death-bringing wings.

With government hospitals and clinics run in incompetence,
it attacks the USA(superior in technology)and commonsense.

3 The country will be stripped

a
The country will be stripped
by the dragon whose mouth in fire flames
burns my daily bread to ashes
before spitting charcoal in my face
from its silver snapping jaws.
b
and in these circumstances of COVID-19 causing amok
still the South African government
wants to dispossess the commercial farms
and bring a great everlasting famine.

[Reference:"August 1968" by WH Auden,

I am quoting WH Auden's poem here:

"August 1968" by WH Auden,

"The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips."]
© Gert Strydom