Lockdown Lament #6

Truth-tellers threatened

nay-saying “freedom fighters”

a chasm in between

Lockdown Lament #5

Birthings and dyings

we can’t be there, bear witness,

welcome or farewell

Dividing lines drawn

Whose needs are pre-eminent?

Values hanging out

Exposed

Social inequities

Obvious system failures

All crying for attention

Now