The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity

When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world 
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barely eke out.

Isolation wards owe you diligence and devotion
ICU hours witness your will and willingness in motion
solely concerned with failing lives' fate
you move heaven and earth against time
to wrest back the critical at Hade's gate
with your own forgotten at the sacrificial sublime.

Head o'er heels covered in colors cold 
still you keep your hearts of gold
wherefrom bright hue beams 
warm love streams
care and cordiality swathing afflicted lands
bundling up every bedside in blessing bands.

Sweat sieging forehead, you have smile snuggle both eyes
fatigue ravaging physique, you have patience station personalities.

Tandem consistency synchronizes and synthesizes
Hippocratic oath and your practice
kneading them into such an integrated tenacity  
that the snaggiest terrestrial tmesis cannot tear apart;

Kindred fitness harmonizes and homogenizes 
Asclepius' staff and your hands
melting them into such an uncanny continuum 
that the sharpest celestial kenning cannot tell apart.

How many grand writers' purple passages paled
and painting masters' soaring strokes flattened
as eminent ebullience of ekphrases encounters self-effacing eclipsers
you are the plainest messengers, the hope and healing disseminators
you are most colorful illuminators, the virtue and vitality vivifiers
Supreme entelechy of esthetics meets pluperfect interpreters.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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