Got Nothing But Time
Change
Old
Values
Important
Demand
The time has come around my friends and there is no doubt of that
Our lives have changed forever and somebody ate a bat
This started over in Wuhan then it spread quickly overseas
The world government let thousands of infected people leave
They let them flee the country to spread out after the bat attack
Go out into the world they said no need to come on back
Greedy countries let their students in to pay their university fees
What’s a few hundred thousand with a facemask and a sneeze
You can’t leave China now and fly directly to your new study town
So just slip on out the back door and do the old run a round
Their cash funds the chancellors and the taxman thinks it’s beaut
They’re opening up so many doors for the Confucius institute
Then people on the cruise ships with their entitled sense of worth
Shared their bloody viruses through nearly every port on earth
It will never happen to me they said, it was their selfish battle cry
Infection rates skyrocketed and the world watches each other die
One by one they left the ports and then ventured across the lands
The price we are now paying is we can’t even hold each other’s hands
Then the world turned on each other with the crazy shopping spree
Tag teaming in the supermarkets not there for you it was just for “me”
They had to buy all of the formula and they didn’t behave very nice
They bought out all the pasta and took every bloody grain of rice
Everyone really lost the plot when they started on this worldwide caper
If you want to survive the purge you must be wrapped in toilet paper
Now the world is stuck at home to weather this manmade infestation
The internet is filled with cheap Chinese crap to help us in our isolation
The keyboard warriors are in doors fighting with their falsehoods and lies
The media feeds the panic with their unprecedented headlines and cries
They’ve closed the pubs and clubs and killed the entertainment scene
They want us stuck at home to be fed by the free to air black box machine
Thousands will die as the virus crosses all the way from coast to coast
Only the healthy and the wealthy will survive the rest of us are toast
When this pandemic panic is all over and all the bodies laid to rest
Our politicians will come out and claim for us they did their best
For those of us that survive this purge and live on to tell the tale
About the time when common sense was not allowed to prevail
Once we’re all neatly locked inside our homes with families no friends
The Governments plan comes into play and our freedom truly ends
Forced through isolation to give up our paper money and free trade
Careers as unemployed welfare dependent servants will be duly made
Everyone get vaccinated and have your boundary crossings approved
The governments will decide if and where the workers can be moved
Infection control will be the rule to guide us along on our new path
Superannuation payouts will disappear into the wealthy bankers laugh
Only two people will venture out from home while eight can stay in alone
Just to be careful before we are allowed out once again to freely roam
What will our new lives look like when we will mourn the days of old
Will water food and freedom become the new poor man’s dream of gold
Copyright Poetry In Paradise Reg TM No 1028534