Running from Covid… afraid to be caught
I found what’s scaring me, and what is not
Facing myself…what’s frightened me most
It’s not just the virus… it’s me… I’m a host
I was morally diseased pre Coronavirus
Living estranged…dying to divide us
Spreading separation…pathologically corrupt
Germinating hate in the name of love
Breeding discord, spawning you enemy
I made myself ill proving you offend me
And, as my insecurities infested my head
I passed my self-loathing, onto you, instead
Feverishly septic from sick propaganda
I contaminated truth, incubating slanda
Whitewashing conscience easily dishonored
Purelling my integrity sleazily laundered
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But, then, 19 hatched …exposing my cover
And, at 6 feet apart I unmasked my brother
Socially distancing… I antibodied close
Immunizing relationships, quarantine coaxed
Now fear of death no longer scares me
And, fear of living no stronger shares me
Covid’s been healing my alien affliction
My heart going viral to rescue its mission
Thank you, sinister, contagious pandemic
For infecting me well with my faith systemic
Curing disaffection, in time to overthrow it
I’m transmitting love in the time of Covid