Friday, 18 December 2020

Praying for a cure - the world before vaccines

 Praying for a cure


In the tumult of a rain-lashed moor

a mother bleats her confused woe

in grief over a lifeless corpse,

gaunt with eyes hollowed out by crows.


Dead against the fast-shut door,

her wails consumed by thunder claps

whisper through long-rotten cracks

phantasmally along the floor


to land a chilling shiver

on the shoulders of a mother, poor,

who cradles her ailing litter

praying to God for something more.






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