Pandemic

 

We live in

troubled times,

where leaders fail

and pandemics prevail. 

Mass hysteria is

the only game in town-

society's going down

because we cannot hear,

and we cannot think

over the turmoil

  spreading across 

our soil.

The Amazon is burning and yet

no one will answer for these crimes.

Such is the twenty-first century 

when the polar ice caps are melting

and there’s no one to answer their plea.