Her breathless lungs, infested skin
Smothered, raging hotter than before:
A viral attack with exponential growth,
And she screams wordlessly from her core
Once flexible, balanced, resilient,
This host’s tired of surviving greed.
The agents still circling, swooping,
Mining relentlessly for what they need
Her airways are carbon-blackened,
systems sore, less capacity.
Dehydrated crying; no fresh tears.
Every cell’s lost elasticity
This 8 billion-strong viral network
Needs to be untangled, to avert disaster.
They make noises to say they understand,
But intensive care with sticking plaster
Her armoury has been varied,
Thrown out waves, storms, wrecked shores
Raged fire, bred pests, rumbled up and out
Now: pandemic lockdown, like never before
The viral agents have to understand
Their future depends on care.
On rehabilitating their host,
On changing their ways.
Only then their life she’ll spare
So she’ll treat them kindly this one last time;
Only 1% she’ll take.
But make this warning the very last.
They must, to her, subordinate.
27 April 2020
https://vocal.media/futurism/are-humans-a-virus-on-the-planet
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