Richard Morgan: The Thorny Crown

Here are my views on the Coronavirus crisis facing humankind.

Warm wishes to all, Richard M.




The Thorny Crown



Now the moment of truth, some of us may see

It should be worth the pain to find what we can be

Time for contemplation on the things we've done wrong

For reflecting, composing, working on a new song

Resurrecting Humanity



I'm rising up early with little to do

The trees rising high, taunting me, haunting you

Sunlight toys with my mood and refreshes my dreams

Bees tend to the flowers, birds play on the beams

Tempting my Humanity


We are heroes and villains, saints on every block

Red crosses, white paint and e-files to unlock

The chorus of courage and desperate pleas

For are we the cure, are we the disease

That interrogates Humanity


The last words of prophets, first thoughts of the fools

Each crying a warning in a world without rules

The child and the pensioner make common cause

When science and freedom are crushed by the laws

Of a ruthless Humanity


Blame for the Chinese, the cold corporations

Refugees and high-flyers, rootless of the nations

Go ahead with deflection, it will take you nowhere

For your clothes are unwashed and your bodies are bare

Naked in Humanity


The skyways are clear and the runways deserted

While life is on trial in warehouses converted

Into hospital ships where we sail our last hopes

Fever dreams redefined and love on the ropes

Binding Humanity


So slow down for a while, grow your own food

It might hurt you a lot but it's for your own good

You wounded the planet, it's all for the best

I'm placing the human race on house arrest

To contemplate Humanity

Now together we watch this passion unfold

Crushing dreams of the young and lungs of the old

Missing times long ago when the mountains shone bright

Do we still have insight to make everything right

And become a Humanity?


Richard Morgan, March 2020