Sonnet

Make a fiery serpent.
And put it on a standard.
We are given a gentle message to repent.
But we will not acknowledge our faults, we find it so hard.

Here we are a year into lockdown, a global pandemic.
At the chemist we still see the sign of the serpent on the standard.
We ignore the lessons of the past and become sick.
It faces face down, fate’s card.

But the wise trust to science too.
They put their faith in vaccines.
They take precautions, they clean through and through.
About lockdown they don’t make scenes.

But we are still overcome with hubris.
We never think this will happen to us and nothing rhymes with hubris.

Haiku

Nothing rhythms hubris
Yes we are overcome with
Hubris all the time