"OH CORONA!"

By: Pat Ashinze


evil has had a rootless rhapsody.
she is now fecundating like park squirrels,
diffusing her venom with the tides of oceans,
feeding on divisiveness, fattening on chaos,
implanting hydra-headed seeds into the winds.

from the Orient of Khan to Lizzy's majestic Europe;
to Columbus's Americas and to Africa's Subsahara -
evil wears a crown, ruling with a sceptre hewn from infirmities,,
desecrating nature's orchard with fear, thorns, serum and mucus.

but here i lie, on my bed, awake with polygonal imaginings,
unworried, precognitive and fighting the good fight of faith.
the world was not made yesterday. nothing lasts.




Cc: Obinnau, Divepen1