We did it for the greater good,
We shut you up and shut you out,
For we knew best, we understood,
Hard heartedness was all about
An abstract theory borne of reason,
Put to use in Covid season,
Made to instil in-group thinking,
To put the self aside.
Tough love required your shrinking
Fear, slinking back to isolation,
Left to sob in lone frustration,
Sans compassion, consolation.
We did our best, we tried,
But your old woman died,
We were not cruel,
Broke no rule,
Just left you racked with grief outside,
Loud, uncouth, undignified.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/14/we-let-people-die-alone/
See also my poem ‘The Enforcing Sadist’ (2020)
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