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No Surrender to Viruses or Fools
My head is ******, 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.