Polio Persistant lyrics

Summers like winters

Shut in and cooped up

Trapped by apprehension

Quarantined, the result

A parahea in the world

Social interaction ended

Isolationism imposed

Placards windows seen

In my youth I knew them

But I could not understand

The frustration of limitation

Only witness the tears

And angered outbursts

Accepted as they were

But each must accept so

Judges of themselves

To fall asleep and awaken

An aching head or back

Then to be paralyzed

Panic strickened gasps

Polio myelitis, crippler, killer

Calipers and crutches

Wheelchairs and braces

An iron lung, a reflected image

Nerve destruction amass

Withered limbs, ashen-grey

Sensations lost, braces kept

Breath independence relearned

Struggling mind and body go

Until an age comes to its end

A long lasting legitimate legacy

Unforgetting, unrelenting

N'er the same to be again

Infirmed, lethal prognosis

Pain, with spasms continue

To speak, to swallow, to breathe

Confined by a mechanical respirator

Financial crisis befallen

Only then, March of Dimes

Communal efforts of charity

Summer months lay claim

Every moment, desperation

Driven to find evasive cure

Those vaccinating efforts

That took great dedication

Remedied by Salk and Sabin

The virus dead or alive

Then a year of waiting still

This monster reappears

It does not sleep long

Waiting for the apathetic

Complacency allied

Resuscitating malevolence

Its victims whisked off

Never to again be seen