Take Advice Or Pay The Price Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLL| In difficult times we should care for each other | A |
| Husband wife children father and mother | A |
| Look out for our neighbours don t put them in danger | A |
| Think of the safety of each friend and stranger | A |
| It s like being on a battlefield when bullets are flying | B |
| You can t see them coming though comrades are dying | B |
| Just like this virus propelled by a sneeze | C |
| Or a careless cough it s a deadly breeze | C |
| For some it s a hoax or some devious trick | D |
| To control all their lives until they get sick | D |
| Then the reality comes home to roost | E |
| They plead for some wonderful immunity boost | E |
| My life is important please save it for me | F |
| Lying here dying isn t where I should be | F |
| It can t be that virus I said didn t exist | G |
| Caught from somebody I randomly kissed | G |
| When shouting and waving my banner in the street | H |
| I thought it was clever and fine to all meet | H |
| But Covid doesn t care about what we believe | I |
| It s not some conspiracy designed to deceive | I |
| It destroys any one of us unless we take care | J |
| So conspiracy believers and marchers beware | J |
| You could be next for the plague to strike down | K |
| Crying and dying in a surgical gown | K |
| Wishing you d listened and taken advice | L |
| Instead of paying this ultimate price | L |
Brian Haworth
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/02/2020
Poet's note: Just a line came into my head while the Covid news was ever changing. I sat down to type and the words were just there waiting to flow in the hope that somebody will take notice and save lives by being careful and caring. The consequences of not doing are bleak!
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