A Game Changer?

 I marvel how morale stays high

When death rates peak; can we stand by

And still plan meet-ups with our friends?

Insouciance breeds fatal trends!

 

High peaks, low troughs - the COVID graph

Has cut our jollity in half

Why Christmas shop, when many stay

At home – all visits kept at bay?

 

Law-abiding citizen, the Kraut?

Despair of Merkel; a new bout

Of lock-down (schnell gemacht!) in place

The German image – a red face!

 

“Over by Christmas?”  Sad refrain …

War on COVID in fast lane

With shoals of vaccines shipped worldwide;

Now new strains threaten – Woe betide …

 

All in finesse, this ‘game of chess’;

Who will win, not ours to guess;

While COVID plans new moves, we scheme;

Tempest-tossed in this bad dream …

(c) Poet in the woods 2020