What in the World...
Coronavirus. Covid19. Covidonenine.
I think Mother Nature has had enough of our ignorance, our disobedience, our entitled natures. She's strewn little red flags along the path to enlightenment but we've either been too busy, uninterested or blind to see them. Raging wildfires in California. Sinkholes. Category Five hurricanes. Tsunamis. Then there are the older flags, bigger but certainly older, like low fish stock, rampaging red tides, earthquakes, and the usual 4 horsemen of the apocolypse. Greta Thurnburg was a small voice that became a yell. Did we listen? Oh, we're too busy making money. We can't stop the machinery that grinds ever slowly to the dank abyss of extinction. She tried.
Then she gave us covid19.
A crisis will bring out the good and bad and sometimes the very best in mankind. Not often, but it does happen. But don't look to America. Or Russia. Or Turkey. Or China. That way lies only tears.
why does matter matter
bits of cosmos, just a pinch
to help us build a cosmic ladder
like building a space station with a hammer
crushing pushing faster harder
molecules dance and twitch
collecting more, careening off
each distant shore getting bigger, electrons
neutrons soon collide then forming
harder fatter gaining orbit but needing more
amalgamating elements creating core
skipping, slipping through dark space
hurling, twirling - nothing is wasted
erased but some is blazed across
a malestrom - cohesive dynamo creating
something special and unique
just some water gives the tweak
we need, it feeds, then is released
creating atmospheric waves that change
the cover of the ball
that blue dot Sagar wrote about
just waiting for the spark of life
stumbling blocks of DNA forming
swarming, casting out that which
survival casts a doubt
eons later found in fields or a desert
at the equator - just a chunk of mystery
helps sleuth out our history
built with dust and particles
providing strength through obstacles
rendering spots at the top
for things that strive to survive
and dominate to facilitate the need
to stay atop through wanton greed
as our dot spins in its orb
listen carefully to the quiet din
as particles strive and create
mending blending then absorb
designed to rise and erase
complacency let the virus in
covid may have tipped the scales
tearing mankind with tooth and nail
science not politics will prevail
or not for who can say what day the tower
sways and we are lost - the cost of
greed that made us blind to the beauty
of this dot - a lesson mankind too soon forgot
now we hide within our caves like generations
through past eonic waves
placing bets on getting tests as we blend
bits of cosmos, just a pinch
to let the tweak begin again
that denies one destiny, forcing Fate
to ensure we’re at the top - the roll of dice
is doubles, boxcars - or not
life is such a precious thing behooving us
to hear the ring that calls us all to order
negating need for separate borders
uniting most at any cost - precious numbers
will be lost - a contrivance of hope
and science
©️Trish Shields