The whole world
  is alert and awake
  everywhere the virus lurks
  people self-protect for their own sake-

  even the slothful
  their inertia they break
  their survival sense
sharpens-  room they make

for contingencies
lest it be too late
they line up early
in front of the supermarket-gate-

life is too precious to neglect
for rich or poor, lowly or great
to forget the woes of living
some poetry I try to create.