If you’re feeling somewhat sad and manic,  

don’t just stay home and idly panic. 

Why not divert yourself, instead, 

with a game to map the world of words within the word “pandemic“? 

Isolation can dampen anyone’s day. 

Loneliness is madewith pain. 

You wish to nap or pace the time away 

until life is normal yet again.  

We’ve paid too dear a price 

How many still have yet to die?  

With the devil’s own dice, it gambles with our lives 

The virus is a damn madman — or to some, a lie. 

No use to wait idly by,  

our responses anemic, pained, or softly whined. 

But through the power of each unbounded mind, 

instead, fight for the pandemic to be fully defined.  

It’s time for the enemy to be undermined.  

Arouse the brave penman within you 

Mince no words to conquer this sorrow 

and release the pain of all that emotion 

from your life today and tomorrow 

So, hold your pen tight, 

whether you’re mice or men, capedheroes, or an academic. 

Take up the fight wherever you’ve pitched your camp  

and battle with words  

to mend our souls, even dance away the fear  

until the end of this wretched pandemic.