Crashing ocean of
Waves and water
Cannot cover
Sounds of slaughter
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Fallen tube
Shattered on floor
Broken seal
Laboratory Door
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Cough, fever, pain
Liquidy raspy lungs
Hacking blood
Swollen tongues
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Brought forth in lab
By medical sage
Meant to cure ills
Not bring a plague
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Each breath breathed in
Tinged with spores
Without a mask
Don’t open doors
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Spread across continent
In cars and trains
Crossed oceans
On ships and planes
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Riots in street
Hospitals without staff
Corpses now pile
As nature laughs
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Gangs murder and steal
Guns and violence rampant
Greed adds to chaos
Our civilization stagnant
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No smoking factories belch
No judgment rendered in justice hall
Nature reclaims man’s monuments
Concrete crumbles, statues fall
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Virulent disease
Now holds sway
Someday course shall run
But pestilence had it’s day
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Hunted like animals
Unable to thrive
Immune run and hide
Trying in madness to survive
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Three billion dead
With few to mourn
Too busy surviving
As hope is reborn
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Remnants band together
Too few too meek
Still courageous strive
To protect the weak
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Gather those survivors
Leave behind suit and gown
Only hope pristine land
Far from city and town
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Tents erected, cabins built
By people woefully thin
In hills and forests
Man begins again
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Clear rocks, fell trees
Till land, plant seeds
Backbreaking labor
As children pull weeds
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On bended knees
I pray to God above
Don’t follow same path
Leave the hate, keep the love
About the Creator
Andrew C McDonald
Andrew McDonald is a 911 dispatcher of 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Keys-Andrew-C-McDonald-ebook/dp/B07VM843XL?ref_=ast_author_dp
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My favourite part was when nature laughed! Loved your poem!