AND YOU WILL
REMEMBER
Once.
There is, was
Nothing
Is, was
Nothing
At all
But the
Dead
Who
In their
Final moments
Their last
Breath were
Surrounded
By panic
And fear
Politics
And despair
Struggling
To live
To survive
Unable
To scream
Where black
Orange &
Yellow
Bodybags
Lined the
Hospital
Hallways
Across nations
Across the world
Where
Photos, media
Flashed
Across giant
Internet screens
Confirming
Loss
And the
Doctors &
Nurses
Essential
Workers
Fought on
Some died
But there
Is, was no
Prayer
No anger
To a missing
God or a
Tyrant, the
Monster of all
Hate, lust & greed
Envy
And sloth
Who ?
With a
Casual smile upon
His face
Lived on
And we ?
The survivors
The angry
The broken
The hopeless
& the poor,
The weak
The powerless
The middle-class
And all the old
And all the young
Of the world
Did nothing.
We
Did nothing
We
Did nothing
We
Did nothing
“At All”
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