Emergency

The meaning of “emergency”
Should not require discussion.
Ignoring one, you’d think, would have
An instant repercussion.

Today, though, some “emergencies”
Are not what we once thought.
A hospital ER is filled
With those where scrips are sought…

Or diagnoses which, before,
The office of a doc
Would be the place where patients
With a flu would likely flock.

The government “emergency”
Appears to me the same,
A non-dire situation
Called such merely to inflame.

A punishment is possible
For dialing 9-1-1
Reporting an “emergency”
When clearly, there is none.

The time has come for pols to act
With conscience as their guide,
Before a true emergency
The people will provide.