Who Took the Village - Sos

Have we ceded our stewardship allowed a systemic sepsis to spread acquiesced to the benign malaise of Death’s directing finger? Spending billions to cure diseases caused by poverty’s pestilence arming ourselves against an assault of mutating microbial minds Offering triage to the fatality of futility’s folly bandaging life’s severed limbs sound biting our souls. Who took the village? ©8/1/2019 Sound of Silence Poetry Contest John Hamilton sponsor