The COVID-19 (Better known as Coronavirus) has most of us in a kind of anxious state of cabin fever. We are told to practice “social distancing”, bars and restaurants are closing, businesses are shutting down, people are losing their jobs, the stock market is tanking. Some areas of the country have been told to “shelter in place.” In the face of these daunting problems it will be easy for us to let ourselves become discouraged to the point of depression.....and I have at times of late found myself seeing only the dark side.
I have always been an avid reader and with the current state of affairs I have had even more time to kill with a book in hand. Being a bit of a nerd, I like poets and poetry. With that in mind, I would like to introduce you to the words of Robert W. Service, an early twentieth century Canadian poet. With good old American ingenuity and with God’s amazing grace we’ll get through this. Be well, my family.
The Quitter
It’s easy to cry when you’re beaten
and die
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl.
But to fight and to fight when
hope’s out of sight,
Ah, that’s the best game of all.
And when you come out of each
grueling bout
All beaten and battered and
scarred,
Have one more try. It’s dead easy to die.
It’s the keepin’ on livin’ that’s
hard.
