A Helpless World, A Helpless Time (Due To Covid 19) Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto

Would the entire World ever fear any adversary?
Would the entire world ever fail to confront any enemy?
Would the entire world ever listen to one command?
Would the entire world ever dread or surrender to one deadly virus?

Would people ever stay indoors and discard their freedom?
Would people ever isolate themselves in their own hometowns?
Would people ever keep safe distance between themselves?
Would people all over the world ever wear facemasks?

Would health organizations ever fail to provide remedies and cure?
Would doctors ever panic or feel intimidated
except by that unknown virus?
Would ambulances run thru every street and corner of the world
carrying patients to hospitals or mortuaries?
Would health workers risks their own lives
to save the life of others?

Would Presidents and Prime Ministers, Kings and queens be bewildered?
Would Actors and Singers ever forget to act in movies,
if in reality they get infected adversely by the corona virus?
Would billionaires and diamond dealers choose to buy out the virus
if it had no marketability but only losses?

Would the deadly virus choose to quit with sympathy
if the whole world falls silent with death and no one survives
to listen to the songs of the birds and sea waves?
Would humanity itself ever find another earth where
corona virus will not exist but flowers will re-grow
with beauty to make life look free and wonderful again?