Breath Taking Scourge

It started when he coughed. Then we made jokes and laughed, Hoping the curse we are is vindicated. But the malady on lungs it feasted. In its toxic smolder we chocked. Rich and poor our doors we locked In desperate timid fear Of its heinous air scare Disguising as fever it tripped Through air as lungs it ripped Taking many more caged Victims, as its attempts surged Menacing the old aged and kill Both feeble and strong in thrill Of an unleashed pandemic With the thirst of an atomic. Just breathe in and out God will win, there is no doubt.