The distribution of a vaccine is providing some light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. While that light is still in the distance and what we’ll find when we get to it is still unknown, this Typewriter Rodeo poem is focused on the hope of drawing nearer to it.
Vaccines
Here comes the single-strand messenger
RNA rolling up with a new plan
Sharing bits of code
Our ribosomes crank out proteins
Teaching our body how to say
Oh heck no
When covid tries to move in
The scientists crack the code
The manufacturers churn out doses
The public health teams organize roll outs
The nurses inject arm
after arm
after arm
And we?
We offer up
Our gratitude
Our patience
And our hope
For an ease to the pandemic
Relief at the protection of our loved ones
And a bold step
into
our new normal
