Melbourne is battling a brutal battering
Soaring COVID, violence and tremors earth-shattering
Last Wednesday we’d wake
To a freak earthquake
Floors vibrating and our houses rattling
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Two hundred and thirty days of dooming and glooming
But green shoots are sprouting and blossoms are blooming
As we look longingly outside
Let’s put our worry’s aside
Time to tune in our tellies where sport is booming
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Horrific scenes that the world clearly remembers
Twenty years ago on this day of all Septembers
Images so indelible
A country thought infallible
Bodies buried in rubble and smouldering embers
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We’ve surrendered to Delta, admitted defeat
Cycled out of control, we fall at its feet
Thrown over the handle bars
The bruises and social scars
Armed only with vaccines, a dishonourable retreat
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