Tragedies come along We know not when Often cannot identify at first The extreme nature One thing for sure Mankind changes For the better or worse And often a combination Traced over history, we Witness the strange behavior Fear, exasperation and denial But truth prevails Not always favorable Not always transparent But truth never-the-less And truth is instructional It may have become forgotten But re-emerges when calm vanishes Good people die along with the selfish Because they sacrifice to help They gave up instructed spacing To give aid to the afflicted They sacrificed to stop loses It only cost them their lives The first loses, however, were Honesty in language and Moderation in politics, especially When the body count rises Extremism in thought And harshness in action follows Then the power moves By those who can When mixed results Can be determined Opening up is safe Closing down is safe If we stop the plague Then one is good If we destroy the economy Then one is bad It becomes politics and Like so often Control is paramount Liberties are stripped Some win Some lose This has always Been the way But in the end A piece of our Humanity and idealism Has vanished History repeats Re-teaches to Those who would Or will learn Stanski May 14, 2020 ^
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Steve Haarman 