Pandemic Beloved

I have no want, just the need to invade to exist

A force of nature, a storm that hits like a fist. Infinitesimally smaller than that, yet I do greater harm.

When I became, you were late to sound an alarm.

But humans are so big and what, 8 billion or so strong?

I am much more, I thrive in you, trillions in a throng.

When I started to spread, you gave me a name

Yet there are many questions about how I became.

Some say from within white walls, or from a bat’s mane...

It matters not from whence I began my campaign.

I am here to challenge humankind, just the same, And now we are entangled in this deadly game.

Really, you should thank me for all I have done

Not that I can really care, since I lack emotion.

I revealed so much love, so much hatred, so much fear

A society so fragile, the deepest imperfections made clear. See what brings you together, and what tears you apart?

I have revealed the best and the worst human heart.

The weakest shall perish, the poor will have it hard

To steal away your breath is my deadly calling card.

The strong, the rich, and the young may survive

And so will the lonely, but they will suffer alive.