Of Disproportional Reality

CATEGORY

Though detoured—adding task to task—

We remain on the battlefield of the Lord

Armed with his grace and strengthen love;

Singing new Babylonian songs on the banks

Of the rivers of suffering in a no longer

Strange land; for we are the heirs of Middle

Passage survivors who came over the way

Watered with the blood of the slaughter.

We are well acquainted with grief, disparity

And death; as well as their disproportion

Among us—which the rest of the world has now

Become aware.  Thus, in the wake of our present

Detoured pandemic dilemma let us not be

The victims of our own mocking self-deception;

For the only thing we are immune to is defeat—

Not the viral causes—check the data’s revelations.

Truth is our ally, not our enemy; let us take care

And not allow mocking myths be the detriment

Of our struggle; word up! hued Covid survivors,

Let us not fail to implement preventive behaviors

That will protect us against the evil viral oppressor.

Let us distance ourselves from the amusing myths,

Realizing that prevention remains better than cure

As we—ourselves—demonstrate how our Black Lives

Matter and that awareness outshine being sorry.