An Old Story of Nurses

Let me tell you

a story

of the resiliency of nurses:

We care for the sick even

when the sick is a colleague 

with no other to fill their shift.

Young or old we jump into the fray

in all the many years of nurses ~

for the young, a trial by the fire of need.

It’s a story as old as nursing ~

we care for each other while

we care for sick patients all the same.

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

~ John Locke