Corona Virus & the World Calamities
By Tarif Youssef-Agha
As all the calamities we have are not enough,
Every day a new one arrives
As soon as one war ends, another starts,
Leaving millions of orphans and widows
Forcing whole nations out of their homes,
Turning them into refugees with nowhere to go
And have you heard about dictators?
They, as God, take and spare lives
And all those natural disasters,
Nothing saves us from storms and earthquakes
As if all that was not enough,
Now we have the Corona virus burning us
The problem now is not where it came from, or how,
The problem now is that we don’t have a cure
It quarantined cities and shut down countries,
Then started eating us, the people
It put the whole world on its toes,
We don’t know how many victims it will claim tomorrow
We don’t know the numbers of tomorrow,
Those of the morning and those of the evening
It is harvesting souls as they are wheat spikes,
Moving among us holding sickles and knives
It is harvesting souls, right and left,
Harvesting strangers and beloved ones alike
No one knows where we are going,
The virus has assigned itself as the judge and the executioner
The whole humanity, until further notice,
Became a hostage in the hand of Corona
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By Tarif Youssef Agha
Houston, Texas
Friday, March 20, 2020