Prick
A simple prick - a real lifesaver-
It's doing us all an amazing favour!
Though causing some folk anxiety
Dismissing the atrocious reality.
If we all accept - it will be fine
We'll be ok in a few days' time
But we're getting tired of guidelines
And sick of feeling so confined.
Fed up with wearing visors, masks,
Want them to be a thing of the past.
Sick of being two metres apart;
It's been so long, want a fresh start.
Stupid pricks, their human rights!
Scientists working through days and nights,
Fighting to keep us out of danger,
This is the vaccine, the real-life changer.
We've been given the Oxford or Pfizer
The rumours' wrong, we won't be wiser!
We might have days of feeling unwell,
Maybe it will hit you like a bombshell.
We might get aching limbs and muscles
Which would be the least of our troubles!
We may get a temperature or a fever
And still out there are non-believers.
There has been so much isolation,
Anxiety, loneliness and frustration,
So many tears and cancellations,
This has happened in every nation.
Of course, we'll all be made to pay
And somehow, they'll be found a way
To keep this variant disease at bay.
Forget (for now) sun,
sea, holiday.
This inoculation is a must!
This is a twenty-first-century plague,
Though understanding has been so vague.
The wishing of hands, sanitising gel -
But really deep down, what the hell?
We don't want this deadly thing to thrive
And we're so lucky to be alive!
Copywrite Linda Lawrence
2nd March 2021
