Seeping out from Asia’s shore
The Miasma from the evermore,
A creature from the Scarlet Tide
Permeating out to hide
Indiscriminately, through man,
To decimate, in stealth, by plan.
Across the globe, throughout the world
Insinuating self, unfurled,
So deadly in its secret way
Of insisting humankind, now pay.

Insidiously slipping by on gossamer mute wings
Invisibilities’ blue tide of lethality hued things,
Slipping by to render all across the spectrum wide  
Causing indiscriminate suffering amid the flotsam tide.

America is failing, Africa now seethes
India is reeling and all Europe concedes.
Britain is defeated and China’s telling lies.
Now the whole planet’s bleeding as this organism writhes.
Financial systems decimated right across the globe
As nations stall in lockdown and economy’s disrobe.
The dominos are falling, now, one by one, for all
And the killer is, this plague is with us till the Judgement Call.

M.
New Zealand
15 August 2020