In this poem, John Baaki of the Women Environmental Programme (WEP) suggests that Wahun, the Chinese city the coronavirus pandemic is believed to have originated, has surreptitiously issued the entire world a stay-at-home order
No one ever believed there shall be issued a supreme command!
A command that will command compliance
More than any command ever issued
A command to stay where you are!
This command is not from a country with the world’s greatest army
Neither it is from a country with the most sophisticated nuclear weapons
It is not from a country with the ruthless terrorist group
Out of Wuhan cometh this command
This command scowls at resistance as it invokes consequences
Flouting the command leaves one first with two consequences to choose
Quarantine and self-isolation
It is a command you must obey
Choose to obey the command from Wuhan
Or be thrown in a fiery furnace
Like Meschach, Shadrach and Abednego
and experience respiratory asphyxiation
That deflates the Homo Sapiens
Returning you to dust from which you came
What a command!
That my country’s political juggernauts humbly obey
And ditch all plans for tourimedical jamboree in foreign land
What a command!
What a command!
That not only ask you to stay where you are
But to constantly make friend with water and soap
And to stay together apart
What a command that puts asunder
What The Almighty has joined together
The command from Wuhan
Has applied automatic brakes
And halted the wheels of the universal automobile
Leaving it motionless and commuters stranded
As Wuhan commands it to stay where it is
What a command
That forbid shouting Hallelujah to Ja the Omnipotent
And flipping the scrolls for wisdom
This command must be withdrawn lest it mars us
But we must first obey the command to be withdrawn
The more you obey the more it is withdrawn
Stay where you are, stay apart, isolate, quarantine
And soon the command from Wuhan will be withdrawn
