COVID-19

I needed to write about the virus

but it always came out too grim.

After all, it could kill the lot of us!

It has changed all our lives in countless ways

No hugging, no kissing-didn't have that anyway!

But who'd have thought that I'd be missing........

Running for the train?

Delays and cancellations again and again!

Late for work

The colleagues smirk

Balancing the books

The salacious looks

The biscuit tin

The constant din

The boring meetings

The convivial greetings

The strange thing is, we need this!

A structure to our daze

Now I can't tell a good day from bad

Or what day it is, come to that!

The stress has stopped,

but so's that elation when it goes away!

Human beings are complicated, complex, creative creatures,

capable of horrific crimes and war

Unyet we do have redeeming features

Great acts of kindness have shone through this crisis

Great minds worldwide are working to save us all

We've all been reminded what life is really for

All we can do is follow the rules

and wait for science to save us

as it has many times before.

Adrian Whicher 08/06/2020

Written 2 days after D-Day

The last time in our history that the greater good overcame a seemingly invincible evil.