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The streets are finally empty, the corners stand alone

Where kids and urchins crowded, now everyone's finally home

The mothers voice is no more heard from afar

She need not scream for her kids to return home for supper

Finally her husband has her time

The fear of the virus is bigger than his pride

The daughters are back to their fathers, leaving husbands to their wives

The sons are back to the drawing table, all the foreigners are too sick and scared to believe their lies

The leaders are cautioning, yet refuse to heed to caution

Telling us to stock up and lock up,  yet our budget can only afford us a very small ration

But the virus is holy

Deadly, yet godly

He visits the rich, those who spend  more time in the skies

It attacks their organs the way a skilled housewife chops onions and tomatoes with all her favorite kitchen knives

Even the terrorists are hiding like cowards

It's suddenly all man for himself,  even the preachers are screaming back up don't crowd us

The First World countries are running scared

All their leaders are turning up dead

Third World countries now looking promising

Seems they are immune to the color cleansing

Their weaponry can't save them, so they go on their knees

Who ever thought guns and grenades could be less powerful than one small sneeze

The streets finally are empty, the corners stand alone

Her visitors are hiding, some are 6 feet below

The world is silent, she has fallen into a deep sleep

Who can save her, mother nature weeps

Not even a kiss from prince charming can break this curse,

For his kiss is a curse, poisonous

One day in May, the world looks back, happy

Suddenly everything is back on track, like it never happened

Dedicated to all the medical workers and health practitioners who are risking and have risked their lives saving and fighting for our survival during this epidemic.


Kingdavid Chinaeke Ofunne

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