The uninvited guest

We knew not from where it came

It wasn’t summoned, but self-invited

It sure did announce its sudden arrival

A bearer of bad news, we thought at its genesis

There weren’t ill omens to predict its arrival

It wasn’t the bearer, it was the bad news

In days and weeks our love ones it snatched

We had not a moment for goodbye kisses

Oh, we were forbidden to do so and

Everyone who dared soon became a memory

Families were brought together but others torn apart.

Everyone is a hero in their season

Who do you turn to when disaster strikes?

The solution creators, problem solvers, trouble shooters

To work they went, their appetite, a quest for discovery

Its dreadful thought ran deadly chills down our spines

China, its birthplace, too small it became as it spread its wings

The world was soon locked down, streets disserted.

The buzzing global economy watched its buzzer fade away

New employees soon queued the unemployment list again

Once vibrant commercial buildings returned to the market

The internet choked with traffic; eyes addicted to screens

While some businesses hit rock bottom, key workers barely rested.

Oh, what we dreaded, our greatest fear has paid us a visit

Day and night scientists researched tirelessly for a remedy

The fight is real, we seem not to know its weakness,

The World Health Organisation in apprehension named it Covid 19

The hope of Mankind is kept alive with the survival of a few

We’ve lost our discipline; our routine we no longer heed, but

We’ve learned new skills; we’ve developed the ones we had

We’ve spent quality time with those we love and mended bonds

Things we wished we had the time to do, we’ve accomplished

There’s a new realisation upon the earth, investment in humanity

There’s a future, the Creator, God in heaven, in Him our hope lies.

We are in this together