Life Force, Second to None
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It is news to no one that feel-good factors comes in
many shapes and forms; romantic or otherwise, for a person, an activity, whatever
… a life force second to none, always on hand in the Here-and-Now to cheer and sustain us through thick and
thin.
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, a time
to remember our debt of gratitude to the members of the armed forces who died in the two World Wars and later conflicts; in our minds
also, inevitably this year, those across the world who have died fighting a very different
kind of war, a very different kind of enemy, the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Someone's death is invariably someone else's tragedy too; remembrance is one of the many faces of Grief, yes, ut also a celebration of those who, for many of us, remain a 'living' inspiration.
LIFE FORCE, SECOND TO NONE
World,
all but on its knees,
sickness
and death paying home visits
just
about everywhere …
No
change there but for its assuming
the
mantle of a coronavirus
striking
a greater fear in us for its ability
to
catch us unawares
snatch us from family and friends, no time
even for precious goodbyes
Hospitals
overrun with cases,
doctors
and nurses working all hours
to
save lives, risking theirs,
while
reassuring anxious relatives
or
having to break
the
very news they have been dreading,
yet
little time for such tears
as
compounding fears confronting humanity
with
its own vulnerability
Battles
fought, survivors recalling
loved
ones lost with such mixed feelings
as
remembrance inspires
love
alone able to temper both pain
and
grief, lifting hearts
with happy memories, the likes of which may
well
never come again
yet
enough to sustain a sense of joie de vivre
that,
if we let it, lasts forever
Find
any human heart’s capacity for endurance
sustained
by love’s Spirit of Remembrance
Copyright R. N Taber 2020
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