Do not delete

I have been told it’s worth forgetting

For the sanity of the nation,

That we should think of better things

For our own self-preservation.

But is it worth omission

From our daily conversation,

So it’s lost in the translation

And an alternative narration

From the top administration

Prevents any complication?

But for your information

There’s a dawning realisation

Of our leaders’ limitations.

There was horrid fascination

As we saw the desolation

Of the viral manifestation

In a global conflagration

by the mass contamination

Of every civilisation.

And we heard the accusations

Of the hurting generation

That endured the segregation,

Government procrastination

And the deadly hesitation,

And the media manipulation,

The bland interrogation,

And the truth assassination.

Horrific fascination

Was the only punctuation

Through our forced isolation

With no hope of vaccination

Or pandemic termination.

We heard endless proclamations

That brought wholesale confusion

And hopeless desperation

And the dire exasperation

Of a fearful generation.

We saw betrayal of our nation

By the lies and humiliation

Of political manipulation

With no fear of litigation

Though the cries for resignation

Led to bureaucratic violation

And power preservation.

Do not forget

Do not delete

Photo by Ervins Strauhmanis in Flickr

Do not delete by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.