The Breath We Share – Alan Gerard

The Breath We Share

We share the same air and fear the same virus and need each other

We raise a flag

among a multitude,

to share with human kind:

 

To seek and save the ill

who lie cocooned

by day, by night,

beside white martyred nurse,

a nightingale.

 

Aware of every breath we take of oxygen:

a spirit that we share

with every child new born

on Planet Earth.

 

Yet we forget this kith and kin

and run alone on sands of time;

invulnerable;

until we slip unshod

to tumble break.

and find our sister, brother.

 

                                             Alan Gerard