A Plague Poem by John Sensele

Address in your life turpitudes that plague
Progress in the process of indulging in a record
In your kitchen, your bedroom, your study
Filled with backward oriented actions that end
The despatch of positive signals to your nerve centre to kill
Any prospects of redemption and its promising features

Where efforts to forge ahead meets an obstacle that features
Prominently among hurdles and sorties infected by a plague
So virulent it connives with viruses, fungi and bacteria to kill
Any chances of speedy recovery in record
Time regardless of innovations in medicine with the sole end
To stifle progress, rifle stress and sabotage every field of medical study

But depending upon how you propose to study
A new paradigm of lifestyle and its salient features
Alongside longitudinal data you could end
Up discovering not only the genesis of the plague
But you could also develop therapeutic regimes that record
The histology, cytology of the malady and go for a revenue kill.

Critics argue that diseases like malaria and HIV kill
More victims than a plague but if they dare to study
Critically, clinically and objectively your work and the record
You've broken in recent times and how your work features
So highly in professional journals they'd admit that the plague
Has dwindled in virulence and in sight lies its imminent end.

However, academic discourse and interaction sometimes reach a dead end
Creating procrastination and initiatives that kill
Inertia and dementia in Asia. In essence, the plague
Poses a serious threat and efforts ought to study
Better ways of countering its danger and all its pathological features
For humankind to forge ahead and put its determination in an indelible record

Where cogent details and specifications record
Engagements in the pharmaceutical industry attempt to end
Virulent features
Truculent actions that kill
Initiatives to study
How to nullify and modify threats inherent in a plague.

Suffice it to record humankind's efforts and march to kill
The plague and end its grip on any serious study
That narrates and features the histology and epidemiology of the plague.