from a distant shore
the pervasive disease floated
in
whereby every country
was infected with its
min  

its waves have been
two
stage
as they've come in
a repeat
gauge  

and its spread has done
damage
untold
many millions of people caught
in its psychopathic
fold

the world's population
shall breath easy once
again
on a remedy being discovered
to quash its
bane  

our globe awaits that
untroubled
day
when the eastern virus's current
finally vanishes
away