Ode to Nurses and Health Care Workers Frances Deverell

 

Can we ever thank them enough?

The nurses working double 12-hour shifts

to care for us,

the sick overwhelming the hospital corridors;

health care workers, risking their lives 

with inadequate PPE.

With low pay.

They worked from their hearts,

through all that terror,

giving everything, they had . . . 

and more

to care for us.

They cared for their patients

and grieved when they died.

So how do we respond?

we allow them to be threatened, 

and insulted,

and diminished

with unbridled vitriol.

And we fail to protect them.

Or we protect them.

What do you choose?