Shut your mouth!

Shut your mouth!

You sneeze your germs, phlegm and cough

I don’t know what virus you’ve got!

A harmless bug or more sinister I wonder;

Is it that disease that’s killing hundreds?

You might protest – it’s your given right

And it’s catching on, a common sight.

You may not want to bother with PPE

But suppose you transmit this illness to me?

Just shut your mouth and wear a mask!

A simple concept you can't seem to grasp!

This should be made mandatory

This is not the world that was carefree.

It’s not over yet, it’s just begun

It can infect and kill almost anyone.

Safeguarding can help and not endured,

At the moment there ain’t a fucking cure.

Opened the beaches, pubs and shops;

The two-metre distance is all but forgot,

Some don’t, some won’t but why gloat?

As there ain’t no fucking antidote.

Cover your nose over your face -

We’ve lost too many of the human race!

There are too many in loving memory

As there ain’t a fucking remedy.

Safeguarding should be compulsory

In every land and all countries.

Confusing, the misleading politics

As yet, there is no easy fucking fix

Why don’t we all just get ahead?

And help prevent this evil spread.

This has reached almost every nation

And there ain’t any fucking medication.

Copyright Linda Lawrence

July 2020