An Unisolated Few

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Australian poet, Corona virus shut-down, poem, poetry

𝐀𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐞𝐰

While speech is still free I’d make one observation:
The measures now taken will damage the nation.

To en masse retreat from a challenging sea,
It seems that the corsairs — the captains, agree.
Their sailors to cower and cringe in their caves,
While headway is made by a few galley slaves
Who’ll take to the oars, row, and breast the foul waves.

— D.N. O’Brien

{dedicated to the workers who keep on keeping on}