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Coronal Ruminations

Coronal Ruminations
		
Here is a war let loose -
a plague upon the frailties
of our unresisting unsuspecting flesh

another plague invisible
inspired in the very air 
invading passages where 
life would breathe

does our world seem broken now
viral failures magnified
rhythms torn to dissonance
aging pains hobbled by a grieving
stillness found among the dead

leaders ape the emperor without
his clothes and shakespeare in
his mouldered grave still clutches
all the winters of our discontent

this unholy virus is a mirror of
ancient death turned black and also 
of a flu that was an exclamation
to the first and worst of world war

all the bright spilled heavens know
that the treasured numbers
of our dead cannot outstrip the stars
and we must march a little closer
to our ancestors and a little further
from the follies in our lives

and the dead keep falling down
in numbers none can grasp

we are torn apart
and we keep apart
and the dead keep falling down
who will act the priest
spreading benefactions
on the tides of tears and
who will be the scientist
who burns this crown of thorns

and we are torn apart
and we keep apart
and the dead keep falling down

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