People live
And people die,
As all of us
Wonder why.
But life goes on
And some have fun.
We even sometimes
Skip and run.
When COVID passes
New normal comes
From which we wonder
Should we run?
Abnormal normal
A change beyond range
Of life long ago —
Seems so strange.
We learned in grade school
We, under God, are in charge
Of our lives. No dictator
Would take that away.
But the virus infected
The Constitution,
So now we bow,
Cow tow to the Imperial,
Once our inferior,
Servant government,
We controlled.
Roman 13 teaches us to obey
Caesar. When the United States
was founded our Caesar became
“We the People.”
Will we in this crisis insist that
we obey our Caesar-selves and cause
government to restrain itself?
INFECTION REFLECTION
By Richard Palmquist richardpalmquist@gmail.com
People live
And people die,
As all of us
Wonder why.
But life goes on
And some have fun.
We even sometimes
Skip and run.
When COVID passes
New normal comes
From which we wonder
Should we run?
Abnormal normal
A change beyond range
Of life long ago —
Seems so strange.
We learned in grade school
We, under God, are in charge
Of our lives. No dictator
Would take that away.
But the virus infected
The Constitution,
So now we bow,
Cow tow to the Imperial,
Once our inferior,
Servant government,
We controlled.
Roman 13 teaches us to obey
Caesar. When the United States
was founded our Caesar became
“We the People.”
Will we in this crisis insist that
we obey our Caesar-selves and cause
government to restrain itself?