In Quarantine

Plague Dogs
Source Unknown...
Somewhere in the Middle Ages

I watch as they lay siege

to common ground,

man-made palisades 

repurposed

into barriers of the mind,

flung up overnight 

to sanction 

their infectious ideologies.

I see them marching

in bedraggled droves down 

deserted streets,

chanting entropic threats of death,

like something reinvented.

When did the light

recede to this hollow space

of empty eyes?

My hometown is currently under siege  - literally - cut off from all entry and exit, all commerce and industry suspended, schools forced to close on pain of death as a sector of the community demands the resignation of an allegedly corrupt mayor. Not for nothing is Ladysmith, SA known as Siegetown.
Local News

Current Update on the situation, Friday, March 13

It occurs to me as I endure this enforced "quarantine", that what is happening here is an apt metaphor for what has occurred worldwide, with the furore in response to Covid 19.