COVID-19 vie er US
/The COVID-19 is a bug
That is impossible to see;
But it is Nature’s weapon in
Her fight against humanity.
For centuries the way we’ve lived
Has been on Nature an attack.
But Nature seems inclined to live
So with this bug She’s fighting back.
8 billion is our number now,
Twice more than Nature can sustain.
We’re like a virus killing Her.
Like one, it seems we have no brain.
She tried to make a life for us
On earth that was a wondrous place.
She even showed us how to live.
In essence we coughed in Her face.
We reproduce just for the sake.
We’ve caused a resource deficit.
And after all She’s given us
In Nature’s home we dump our shit.
We’ve given Her a fever that’s
Approaching close to 2 degrees
Above what was ideal for life,
Thus causing Her increased disease.
Heat kills Her creatures, land and sea.
It’s drying out and drowning land.
So in the home She made for us
There is less space for us to stand.
We’re burning Nature’s lungs so She
Is having trouble drawing breath.
They’re getting worse so now it seems
Her lungs in flames may be Her death.
The COVID-19 is a bug
Shots can defeat by our accounts.
However, it won’t be a win
The way that Mother Nature counts.
A win for Nature would result
In Her sustainability.
If we do not support her try
That’s not a possibility.
In order to let Nature win
This basic fact we need to learn.
Since normal is what got us here,
To normal we cannot return.
We talk of God Economy
Emerging out of its death bed.
Because it brought us close to ours
We need to let it die instead.
A new economy we need,
To be our servant, not our god,
So we control the way we live
And Nature’s wealth we can applaud.
We need to ditch our politics.
It’s only been a source of fights.
With it, will be the death of us;
Without, humanity unites.
Religions and philosophies,
Blind spots in us they’ll always be.
These too we must discard so that
In worship, Nature’s God we see.
We praise the workers on front lines
And claim to be their greatest fans
But only show our gratitude
By banging empty pots and pans.
Love of our parents we profess.
This fact though we cannot ignore.
Instead of keeping them in life
In homes awaiting death we store.
We say the problem is no time
And or we can’t afford the cost
Of caring others have the same
As us. If not then Nature lost.
We chant “we’re all together” but
Together we will never be
Until we cast out from our life
Our evil inequality.
Division isn’t Nature’s way.
We can’t continue to divide.
The only way we can survive
Is with a life that has one side.
These changes are not radical.
The consequence will not be new.
We’ll be returning to just what
Our predecessors used to do.
They reached out to the limits of
Their own unique capacity,
To others, and to Nature’s God,
Creating thus, humanity.
But ‘Eve’ asked ‘Adam’, “Why am I?”,
And ‘Adam’ tried to fill the void.
Increasing efforts ever since
Have left our life all but destroyed.
Our tries have separated us.
We claim we have the ‘right’ to choose.
Two ‘rights’ though make a human wrong
Since separated we all lose.
If we continue with our tries
And keep that way of life alive,
Our win will cause the loss of life,
For our way Nature can’t survive.
OUR LIFE LINE (reasoned prose)
TRUMP ‘16, BIDEN ‘20, NATURE ‘24 (rhymed reason)
AGE of ASININITY (rhymed reason)
ABORTION (rhymed reason)
ANALYZING CONFLICT (rhymed reason)
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL (reasoned prose)
RACISM (rhymed reason)
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE (rhymed reason)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (rhymed reason)
LIFE: a reaction to the void (rhymed reason)
0UR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY (reasoned prose)
EC0N0MY (rhymed reason)
THE LAST WHY: the poem (rhymed reason)
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS (rhymed reason)
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SEX, and other anesthetics (rhymed reason)
AGE of ENTERTAINMENT (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: the death of us (rhymed reason)
DEMOCRACY: a debacle (rhymed reason)
MY POETRY (rhymed reason)
TOGETHER (rhymed reason)
LAW of HUMAN NATURE (rhymed reason)
RELIGION (rhymed reason)
SEX (rhymed reason)
AFTERLIFE (rhymed reason)
HAPPINESS (rhymed reason)
ALONE: an anthem for humanity (rhymed reason)
WAR on PEACE (rhymed reason)
SOLDIER’S LAMENT (rhymed reason)