Eithne Cullen
London, England

Eithne Cullen was born in Dublin, her family moved to London when she was six years old. She has had poems published in a number of anthologies and magazines. She has recently published her first two novels: The Ogress of Reading and Never not in my Thoughts. She likes to write stories and poems. She lives with her husband in East London and works close to home. She is unashamedly proud of her three grown up children, and endeavours to embarrass them as often as she can.

https://eithencullenpoet.wordpress.com

This poem was written: 28^th April 2020

There be dragons

 

We’re winning the man

declares, from behind

the lectern bedecked

with the mockery of

loving the NHS…

in it together, though

we’re clearly not - the

scenario familiar now

commitment to isolation

outlining our options

words of rhetoric and

flattening the curve with

secret strategies while

lurking in familiar

shadows – dragon-like

in suits and wearing badges

our drivers in this

deadly traffic jam