Covid 19 is sweeping the nation
Covid 19 is sweeping the nation
The populace in a state of frustration
Locked up in lockdown what can we do?
What news is fake, what news is true?
Keep washing hands and wear a mask
To halt the virus is now our task.
Maintain your distance, keep to your bubble,
Without isolation we could all be in trouble.
Borders closing, ‘planes parked-up on the ground,
Holidays cancelled; the effect is profound.
Nature reasserted takes centre-stage
Boardgames and jigsaws now all the rage.
A time to take stock, a life left behind
Post-virus thinking, a chance to refine
What do we value? What really matters?
As charts and statistics, us constantly batter.
As “means of production” we’re all part of a scheme
Making rich people richer, but what does this mean?
Is life getting better? More stuff and more flights.
Forgetting the value of nature’s delights.
The sound of the birds, jet engines unheard
Flora and fauna reclaiming the spaces reserved
For human endeavour and worldly expansion
Apartments and houses, villas and mansions
Supported by roads, pylons and cables
Infrastructure all of it designed to enable
Us to travel to far distanced lands
Systematically delivering profits to hands
Of entrepreneurs and vast corporations
Whose missions' not vested in helping their nations
But using the cash to build-up their targets
Selling more stuff, creating new markets.
Shareholder value and profits their locus
A global Monopoly game that is their focus.
Governments make laws to push forward their goals
But many intentions sent into black holes,
Lobbyists ensure real changes fail.
For the sake of the planet this just can’t go on
Squandering our lifeblood, it must be wrong?
A new model is needed if we’re ALL to succeed
Providing us ALL with what we ALL need.
Food and clean water, top of the list
Health care and a future we have to insist