If we had locked down two weeks earlier,
Your gran would be alive. If we had locked
Down two weeks earlier, you would be sure
Your job was safe. And you would not be shocked
By Britain’s death rates. If we had locked down
Two weeks before we did, deaths would have dropped
Like many other countries. We’d have found
A way to stop the spread. If we had locked
Down two weeks earlier, they’d be alive.
So many, if we’d followed the advice,
Would never have got ill. They’d have survived.
But, since we didn’t, they have paid the price.
Just think about the way things might have been
Without the call to take it on the chin.
Tom Juniper Poetry 