Quarantine

Mother Nature is taking care of her own

making her displeasure well known

this planet of “ours” needed a rest

we are nothing more than her mere guests

We’ve taken all she would give

far more than we ever needed to live

She has been oh so patient with us tenants

and now the time has come to up the rent.

We complain about the inconvinence of it all

she complained as well, but our hand went up as a wall

She did her best to warn us, of the tipping of the scale

but we abused her, when we should have hailed.