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Saturday 16 July 2022

OUR CARER ARISES, a poem by Tom Leonard

                                                                  OUR CARER ARISES


                                                     by Tom Leonard

                                                                          

                                               Dedicated to Jim Liddle


                                                  


                                                                                  




                              My noble companion, like Scott Scotius, in Christ,

                        Heavenly angel like St. Raphael,

              Who cares so much for the Bruchton community,

                          His cousins and family in Fife,

                            Is stricken after many years 

                           Of healing and comforting others

                  With the Omnicron virus that threatens us all.

                         He serenely retires to his mystical flat 

                   Somewhere above the quaint Apple pharmacy

            And relaxes as one positive flow test follows another,

                  And the young people bound down the stairs 

                                 To nourish and sustain him.


              He reads and composes poetry 

              And sends pleasant messages

              As the virus ravages his  throat,

              But then a negative test!  Then another!

              And he is down the stairs, fit as a fiddle,

              An inspiration to me and all others,

              As he becomes part of God's life once again.


            Our carer has arisen, All is safe with the world.

           A part of me is resurrected

           As I struggle with my mind;

          We can resurrect the world once again.




                                           

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