What do MH370 and COVID-19 have in common? No prayers answered.
[Okay. Pardon the click-baiting title. I just couldn’t resist. From now on, it won’t be much on the airliner. More on the frontliners.]
We prayed for the recovery of each of them respectively. Hoping from something more potent and benevolent beyond the limitations of us puny humans. But I’m not writing this to belittle the power of prayer. The video was made during early lockdowns in my despair towards those who believe in a caring god but refusing to take care themselves from getting or preventing infections. They insisted on congregating and going about their communal religious rituals as per normal somehow believing that with their show of faith they will overcome. Even a governmental minister refused to acknowledge the potency of the virus citing that his community has prayer!
Now. Almost a year later. The Song Remains The Same.
In the year of perfect vision
Chiroptera bred a new contagion
Regal with a deadly crown
Reign with rising body count
Who amongst us have less infection
Recovering with rapid succession
None I see. None I hear.
None I read. None I fear
Surely we prayed in fearful fervour
Sought Protection. Grace. And Favour
Still
None I see. None I hear
None I read. None I fear
Prayers prove to be defective
No answers came. No relief
Anecdotes fraught deceptive
All our gods ineffective
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But now I read there comes a vaccine
That doesn’t work like penicillin
It doesn’t need to use the virus
Like it doesn’t need your fervent prayers
I don’t believe prayers were answered
It’s been too long. Too many hurt
Lasting solutions that always work
Are consequences of human effort
