End of lockdown after a year?

Home town and COVID 19 2020/1

 

There is a little town that nestles

Below a northern hill

Where all the things are changing

But things are strangely still

 

The Covid has been raging

And schools are shut tight closed

For all but vital workers kids

And others indisposed

 

All shops are closed and shuttered

The bars and pubs called time

Christmas was all cancelled

For you and yours and mine

 

The campers are all missing

The adult weekends gone

The streets and carparks empty

The winters very long

 

Fur-lows a word that offers

Hope for futures strong

For Hotels, cafes and businesses

But not for very long 

 

A vaccine is the answer

For worries great and small

How old, how vulnerable is the cry

Soon it will be for all

 

The virus killed and mutilated

Many thousands more

In a time of science

It’s time for us to explore

 

How to stop the trouble 

We all have had to bear

And reunite our families

And make sure that we care

 

For him, for her, for us, for them

So the saying goes

To prevent another shut down

And another towns go slow.

 

Ron Blundell

March 2021