A social calamity and crisis

 A pandemic  is now  shutting down

human civilisation as we know it.

This pandemic now risks

a social calamity and crisis.

The social order of our world is exposed

where ordinary people are endangered

whilst the elite seek the high ground

with the greatest protections  available to them.

We have millions and  millions of people

in our wealthy nation 

that are always one pay cheque away

from extreme hardship.

Without radical action –

which must become the new common sense –

a social emergency will long outlast

the public health crisis.

Now is the time to demand action,

not to blindly submit.

Now those is the time  to survive- 

for this pandemic is killing

many of those that we love.