Through years
All we knew were fears
Of pause, entrapment and lockdown
Freedom, were we conferred to live carefree
Until you came recently
With fever, cough and flu
Which you shared
From person to person
Airborne as a plague
Did you make yourself king
King of Viruses
Whose sceptre frees not its captives
King Covid
Enthroned in ‘19
Long enough did you reign
On throne of continents
At your feet did rulers bow
Upon your name were streets made desolate
Schools shut down
Markets curfewed
Work stopped
In your reign were counted
Deaths upon deaths
Overcrowded hospitals
Hunger, crime
Lockdown of earth, land and sea
The world was paused, O King
King Covid, enthroned in 2019
King of Viruses
As dethroned were past kings
Ebola and Influenza
So have you been
For our freedom
Upon your dethronement
Did we chant:
“Freedom at last"
For your memories
To ashes have we burned
And your urn
Into history cast