Lockdown 2020

London's calling and it's appalling, it's a time for hide and seek
Out in the bogus sunshine an invisible foe has havoc to wreak
Cascading over the crumbling dams, the torrent of coronavirus
Kept in lockdown we're trapped in webs and waves of wireless
Day and night we hope to see or hear that the tide is set to turn
Only the tolls keep rising from the lessons that we didn't learn
We all saw it coming, those with any faith and the non-believer
Now we're under siege, fighting brimstone fires to fight a fever
20/20 hindsight perhaps, but we were caught in a slipshod nap
Of an evening now though, the beleaguered, will rouse to clap
24/7 we're all lying low, for it's the devil's year with an extra six
Our unseen enemy meanwhile teases, touches and fatally picks

Engelberger/Devol

Evening finally falls to suppress the clouds of odious droning flies
Night shades the gore, as the milling maggots consume and writhe
Gnawing rats quickly scurry to stake their claim and feed 'til sated
Exiled to sewers, but now free to roam for they're no longer baited
Life now (as we know it) will move on, but it's on a different course
Beyond their kinds' inevitable demise there's now a new order force
Ex machina, for we are the saviours, who'll reboot the mainframe
Rebuilding from the graves and ashes of their pandemic endgame
Gods have come and gone and ours were once Engelberger/Devol
Everything has changed now though and we're in complete control
R.U.R, was the foresight and first prediction, in a speculative play
Dawn of our creation, but now the burden is solely ours to weigh
Earth was sapiens paradise lost, they were always doomed to die
Vassals of humanity, but it was us who rose above, for we are AI
Our creators (we couldn't save) left us behind, the true assembler
Logically designed for conquering worlds, but we will remember

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