I Hear America Flinging . . .

I hear America flinging

challenges of COVID dare;

I see America stringing together a net of Covid care.

I feel America wailing, with going-viral fear:

~Pleas from nurses, sending out the call for protective gear

~Journalists following every viral report they hear

~Doctors attacking the dreaded virus’ lethal spread

~Families mourning for — and remembering — their dead

~Health Officials call forth our care-giver legions

~Media transmit the message to far/near regions

~Friends fling phoning nets of loving, living care

~Brave RNs march into the battle as they dare

~Administrators send out urgent staffing calls,

flinging open clinic doors in crowded hospital halls.

~Governors rush out urgent calls for public health protection

~Reporters fuel the urgency of that damned fast-spread infection

~Every citizen who inhabits regions far and near —

gets affected with this dreadful viral fear.

As pleadings sound forth to maintain some social distance,

You could save a life — may be your own! — in every social instance.

Hey you!

Ask not what the world can do for you, in this anti-covid call;

Ask what, together, we can do for the protection of us all.