QUARANTINE LIFE: PANDEMIC ANNIVERSARY

So many weary of new spikes and cases

Some craving crowds, or a kind hand to hold

Bemoaning  the cloths that shield their faces

Others in mourning as death takes its toll

So many move carelessly; live in denial

Choosing lies in favor of truths they’re told

Offended by those whose goal is survival

And still, from the inside, watch things unfold 

Fickle policies always send the lax scrambling

Hoarding the ordinary as if it’s gold

Tired of it all, their excuses are rambling

Forgetting  the ailing are now young AND old

There are those who have, somehow, avoided the fray

Setting boundaries critiqued as extreme, or cold

They seek what the smart and reliable say

And from the inside, pity how things unfold

Hard to say now, when it all will be finished

Opportunities squandered; bill of goods sold

The wise are ridiculed, their warnings diminished

The least competent voices are now the most bold

History certainly gave us a blueprint 

Our current state of affairs is quite old

In the past, too, some wondered where common sense went

 And from the inside, watched the story unfold