Viruses Don’t Care – a poem

Viruses Don’t Care

Viruses don’t care

About you or me, or anybody.

They are merely breeding machines.

They don’t really want to kill us.

We are their hosts,

Their meals.

They want us there to feed off,

To breed in.

But viruses don’t care.

A billion dead is nothing.

There are billions more hosts.

Viruses don’t care.

They just want us to spread them round

So they can breed.

One track minds.

Viruses love Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro,

But they hate Jacinda Ardern

And vaccines.

Viruses just want to have fun

In your cells,

Take over your DNA

And breed like crazy.

That’s why there are trillions more of them

Than us.

Viruses don’t care.

Opher 22.11.2021

I often wonder if viruses and bacteria are conscious. We always arrogantly think that we have a monopoly on consciousness and intelligence.

Viruses may live at a different speed to us. A day for them is the equivalent of a millennium for them.

Perhaps they plan, scheme and develop tactics.

They certainly seem more intelligent than most of us.

Poetry – You Set Me Free

You Set Me Free

You opened up the rainforest

And set me free.

You sent in the loggers

And released me.

Your hunters and merchants

Took me to distant lands

Your wet markets and butchers

Have blood on their hands.

Now I’m in your blood

Breeding rapidly.

I bet you are glad

You set me free.

Opher – 13.9.2020

Covid-19 – another pandemic set loose by our own stupidity.

We continue to open up the inaccessible regions.

We hunt and catch the poor creatures who live there.

We put them in cages and sell them in markets.

We ship them around the world in terrible conditions, all crammed together, starving, thirsty, terrified.

We keep them in insanitary conditions.

We take them to market and slaughter them.

Their blood is on our hands.

The wet markets release virus after virus – HIV, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, Avian Flu. There has been a stream of them.

Are we going to all this terrible trade to continue?

I think it’s as bad as slavery!

How long is it before a virus is released that will wipe us all out?