EDITOR, The Tribune.
Amid this dark and gloom
that circles our world–
a world that has spun through
so many circles of night
out into the sun –
a curtain is being pulled up
slowly, by an army of faceless,
first responders, so that most
of mankind will see the sun again.
As this gallant army fights on
relentlessly, day and night,
its fallen soldiers move on
to join hundreds of thousands
of their fellow-men, who too were felled
by this invisible, deadly enemy,
without holding a loved one’s hand;
gone without saying “Goodbye”;
Gone!....All alone!
The fallen soldiers are being replaced
by an ever-flowing stream
of new recruits – like a mighty river
being filled up by its tributaries –
knowing quite well that some of them too
will die so that others may live
to see a new day; a new normal; a new world!
And when the new day dawns,
and the sun comes over the horizon,
and history writes the history of COVID-19,
the story will be that,
that army of first responders was indeed,
an army for The Ages!
JEROME CARTWRIGHT
Nassau,
March 23, 2020.
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