Monday, August 10, 2020

The Littering of the Mask

 

What be this thing upon the ground

thus cast before my eyes

a doctor's mask doth now outlay

discarded face disguise


This shield of covert manifest

protection of disease

now lay a foot upon my trail

in open site with ease


Is it infected pending death

for any passersby

the covid ware of nonchalant

who tossed it there in stride


Where n'er before this torrid site

twas brought this way and cast

now rampant be the litter of

the daunting of this mask


For anyone with sense doth know

the world is set ablaze

the unseen virus not controlled

invisible with raze


To carry all to funeral pyre

thus destiny and fate

yet here doth lie the mask of one

who wore this in his gait


And now avoid with distant stance

upon this walk I'll stride

deflecting all the danger there

the mask so clearly hides


And to the landfill thou must go

upon the human race

who buy a partner recompense

to put upon their face


And more and more thy presence seen

thou breath preventing mask

the fashion of a new found world

thy grounding fate at last

 

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