(A state of uncertain quarantine)

Keep to yourself and lock away,
Out of your homes and dwellings you may not stray.
Only if essential or urgent it may be,
“Step out then you may”, says the government’s decree.

Compelled we are, to separate from one another,
Something we must do without any pother.
Basic requirements to curtail a mass spread,
Of a virus so deadly that threatens to shed.
A warning of a possible or imminent elimination,
Of all life as we know it, without any hesitation.

Placing ourselves apart from the...