Pandemic

Pandemic

Pandemics happen about every

hundred years or so, multitudes die.

Like cheetahs, plagues hide and wait to strike.

In Medieval times pestilence came,

ravishing the population.

Through history diseases came

again and again. In the seventeenth

century quarantine both the word

and deed was created.

In 1918 my would be aunt died.

A massive pandemic hit,

she was one of its victims.

Grandma, I'm told, never really

recovered.

Now again, it's the same whether called

pandemic or plague. Unreasoned

thinking hits, panic buying sets in.

Is Canada going to embargo toilet paper.?

Will Campbell stop canning chicken soup?

Some flock to buy, even foods not liked.

But irrational conduct isn't new

as we are reminded of past calamity

in Decameron and in Canterbury Tales.

The pandemic isn't the first the world has seen,

and won't be the last.