Virus calls the tune.
Some are called to intense work and high danger.
Some are called to shelter and turn within,
Some in families, some in solitary.
A grinning skeleton has its eye on you.
You, mask & gloves, keeping distance –
Are you infecting your loved ones?
Are you at the end of your story?
Humanity is loudest and meanest of all the species.
Tamp it down, lighten your footfall,
cut out the burning and pillaging.
This is what Earth asks of us.
We long said our way was unsustainable,
so here it is now, failing to sustain,
and we were surprised?
Aye, even I was surprised.