Lawrence Hall
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No Surrender to
Viruses or Fools
My head is bloody, but unbowed
-Henley, “Invictus”
We planned to build in peace a better world
With hands and tools and minds and arts and sweat
A home and bed for every little child
With love and peace around each family’s hearth
But now we daily read the deaths
of friends
Futility is wormed into our hopes
By fatal vapors coursing through the air
Adrift on breathy particles, scornful
Of everything we’ve worked for all out lives
For still we daily read the deaths of friends
Some of us blame each other, or just give up
And wallow in despair, but not you and I
Let’s help each other - we’ve got a world to build
("Invictus" is
something of a cliche' now, and flawed in some ways, but its attitude of
defiance and stoicism is still admirable.)
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