Praise to All Who Do Their Part

Praise to essential service providers

Who daily put their lives on the line.

Such a giant debt we owe them!

May their hearts forever shine!

 

A special shout-out to doctors and nurses

And other health care workers who strive--

With limited equipment--to keep

Patients with COVID-19 alive.

 

Praise to epidemiologists

Who give us guidance and rules to follow

When the advice given by some

Of our topmost leaders is hard to swallow.

 

Praise to all who do their part

To keep a deadly virus from spreading,

Despite scary uncertainties

That make it hard to know where we're heading.

 

Praise to all who listen to

The voices of reason and do not let

The voices of ignorance cause them to

Behave in ways they'll one day regret.

 

And while we're praising all these people,

Remember the victims who had to die.

When a government's responses

Are muddled, the cost in lives can be high.

 

-by Bob B (5-22-20)