Batty

 (Picture Credit - Bracken Cave Bats by Nat Geo for Kids)

They say this Covid Plague came from bats.

I picture a great black cave

Filled with bats

Crammed into the crannies –

Locust swarm sardines,

Those Covid spike-balls

Rubbing their hands with glee.

So what happens when Lockdown Eases?

Swarms of sheeples

Dancing in the streets

Squeezing together

In a booze fuelled frenzy

Just like those bats.

Except the bats remain sober:

They only do what they do

Knowing no other.

But We have no excuse.

We have the intelligence

To see

That this is wrong.

Yet we choose NOT

To act smart.

No, we risk all –

Risk a lonely breathless death

And anonymous incineration

Away from our friends and kin

Just for a boozy lash

Out on the crowded town.  

Will We ever Learn?

I’m afraid

It might be a long time coming.

Paul Butters

© PB 5\7\2020.