The Coming Of Queen Corona Poem by Victor Okechukwu Anyaegbuna

In terror and in dread
we crossed visible paths of the spectrum of life
and conquered the guarding ends
to unleash violence on virtuous innocence
morbidity chased out of sight.

Below the red and above purple streams
we conquered microbes and invisible enemies
that dared a living from basic elements of our life;
least understood in our conscious ignorance.

Before the violet, spirits danced
like termites in first flights of life;
only seen by canine creatures,
yet invisible to the teacher's screen behind the vitreous.
From indigo, the hue of clear sky elegance,
and lush rain pampered vegetation;
The dazzling rays of the sun, fearlessly penetrate
and constrict sensitive pupils,
to sweet citrus balls, and oxygen saturated blood.

A sensuous silhouette of aqua impregnated ether
filters benevolent rays of a kind, pampering sun
hung in the haloed sky
and telling the tale in beauty and candour.

Beyond and below the visible crimson terminal
flow radiation we captured and reinvented
to pamper life and fight disease.
Then we straggled through the third unhurt!
And beyond the third,
curious and ambitious, yet unwary.

The fourth availed us comfort and we revelled
in achievement but ambition took us further
to probe the guarded precincts of the scary unknown.
Now that we unveiled waves of terror
that millions of units of our gusto and vibrancy fouled
to weaken our resistance, and coin the knell
of power that propelled us to great mortal heights.

We fell unashamed, bereft of cure,
dazed by the augury of the unknown,
and versed in sundry modes of turgid dread.

July 8,2020