ODE TO COVID-19

We thought you were just a lamb, a simple flu virus

    But you weren’t

We thought a couple of weeks stay-at-home would send you on your way

     It didn’t

We thought our leaders would help you on your way

    They didn’t

We thought our leaders would learn from scientists as they learned more instead of politicizing their wrong-headed original plans

    They didn’t

We thought that our world could get back to normal quickly

    It couldn’t

Thousands of people have died who could have been saved

    They weren’t

We thought that individuals would learn to wear masks willingly without coercion

    They didn’t

We thought you were a lamb We were wrong A lioness on the prowl, you will kill or cripple many more before you are done

Immunity will save us, but when will it come?

Judy Richardson