Plauge Perspective

Plague Perspective Shelter in place Stay physically safe Don’t allow the plague To sneak under your Mask or gloves Keep those wrap around Sunglasses over your eyes Socially distance six feet And I will do all that But my heart breaks At the thought of Brothers and sisters That have no one close That’s safe enough to gift Them with personal touch No one to caress their faces No one to hug or snuggle Up to as the sun goes down Eaten by the night skies And ‘in place’ translates To alone and frightened By this invisible monster Permeating our landscape Haunting our dream time And culling our herd with Random inexplicable contagion Be gone damn plague Go home to wherever you were born and disappear into your own black hole…