Equality, at last.

Oh please spare the agony—

Spear the righteous trends.

Bow down to the air you breathe.

Say goodbye to all your friends.

Say so long to all your enemies.

A fond farewell to lovers.

Maybe we could’ve beaten this,

If we’d learned how to treat each other.

If only neighbor had been neighborly,

And stranger had been friend;

We could’ve saved humanity

But instead we’re facing the end.

So much time was wasted and lost,

Looking at gender and wealth and skin.

If only we had realized the cost

Of dividing by land and religion.

It was hate that made us create it:

The virus in our labs.

We didn’t realize when we made it

That there’d be no taking it back.

We didn’t realize how fast it would spread,

And all the lives that it would take.

We finally see it now that everyone’s dead:

Epidemics don’t discriminate.