Keeping Tabs
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The
subject of today’s poem will be no stranger to many if not most people, whoever
and wherever they may be in the world...pandemic or no pandemic.
KEEPING TABS
Adept
at finding ways
of
taking advantage of humankind,
especially
at such times
as
may find it weak and least able
to
keep from visiting
dark
places, struggle though it may
against
my resolve to attack
any
life forces likely to offer resistance,
sure
to be watching its back
Be
sure, I will infiltrate
such
defences as no mind-body-spirit
can
resist, a foxy cunning
as
innate to me as a desire to best
any
who would deny me
an
opportunity to prove my worth,
take
a random soul
to
a Black Hole at the edge of its universe,
see
it suffer, watch it fall
I
creep up on my targets
with
such stealth that none are aware
that
I am near, closing in,
posed
for the kill, despite the pull
of
other life forces
encouraging
it to out its devils,
no
more clutching at straws,
get
the better of me, inspire self-awareness
to
rise above its worst fears
I am Stress, keeping tabs on Man and Beast,
with a view to putting us all to the test
Copyright R. N. Taber 2021
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