When the ABNORMAL becomes the "NEW NORMAL"

When the ABNORMAL becomes the "NEW NORMAL"

Time has changed

And life is sprained

Time, indeed,

It is

For the new normal

Where the abnormal

Becomes the normal

And the normal

Rendered abnormal

Covid-19 is only a catalyst

Not the least the cause of the siege

Where life's meaninglessness assumes a disturbing dimension

Humans have been feeding fat on blood with such aggressions

Outweighing the current waves of the ravaging pandemic

In bouts of shows so pathetic!

Far too long, we've been lost to our greed

So lost to our clime so eclectic

And from the top to the bottom

The harvest of summer is cornered in autumn

And now the abnormal becomes the new normal

Weep not, for not for yourself you weep

Weep now for the generations your greed has clipped

Cutting their buddings

Longing for shunting

Blasting the attics

Of nurseries to their buddings

Weep not oh hypocrites!

Weep now for the lives you’ve clipped

Ours, like the "Wasteland” it typifies

Where the natural cycle of the seasons is reversed

And money the mammon is being deified

So, we raise a generation of yahoos

From the affluence of political cocoons

Swimming daily in the pool of innocent blood

To oil and grease their ill-gotten wealth – their god

Weep not now for it’s too late.

Covid-19 is only a man-made catalyst

To the manifestation of the apocalyptic

The evil, for long, has consumed the very heart of man

Before the release of the titan currently consuming our clans

On our own, we have plundered the land

Before the clutching of the reins by corona

The heart of man has been sold to the devil

Before the unleashing of the greater evil

So, weep not now for it’s too late

Weep now for the ones you have slain!

© Wale Oladokun 07-07-2020