Prick

 

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.

 We must have faith belief and trust

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