Lockdown,
was committed to quicker than I can get a sock down on my foot
It was all a shock down in our systems
We could barely take stock down of what happened
Each day
A new way of handling this extraordinary event
These plans the government sent
We never really knew what they meant
Every one began with a new intent
‘Follow the science’ they said
But with every Facebook thread we read
We were never sure where we’d be led
With every conspiracy theory we’ve been fed we can see
Everything happens faster than we can flee
All we can do is
Hope for the best
Prepare for the worst
But.
Look after yourself first.
Now you’ve done that the rest is easy
Relax, settle down, take a breath,
Don’t get queasy
Many will panic like with turbulence in a plane emergency
We’ll be told to frantically brace ourselves
And prepare for the plain insurgency of our freedom.
But this lockdown isn’t all gloom
It shouldn’t just be a chance to brace ourselves for an eventual doom
But a chance to
Embrace ourselves for what we can do
The many things we can share between me and you,
We,
Can refuse to lockdown our minds
We,
Can choose to defuse the lockdown of our souls
And in the end when the virus will lose
We will look down on this lockdown like a touchdown
By all of us who took it on
Both apart
And together
And we will take what we learnt with us on
Forever.
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