TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL

TO THE KNIGHTS OF THIS DAY

The surge of a pandemic;

blood gushes, turns torrent.

Tales of its deeds

kept men on their knees.

And like a bolt from the blues,

it came upon us.

Then arose savants of Asclepius;

medic pundits in the white regalia,

knights with glittering sheaths

unto a fierce battle for souls.

And their lives they deemed to lay

for the salvage of this race.

© Ademola Phocus

AN ODE TO HCWS

This is to all healthcare workers and researchers,

working at a time like this.

By reason of an oath,

you’ve been recruited as soldiers

in the war against the raging pandemic.

Thus, while the rest of us are at home,

you stay at work risking life and family.

This is just to say that your efforts are truly
recognized;

for like the soldiers who go to war, you also will
forever be remembered

in our hearts for this noble and heroic act of
service.

In simple terms, THANK YOU.

© Debbie.

THE HEROES

The world went silent when the stranger visited.

Men in power isolate for there’s no cure.

Market women on strike, students on break,

churches and mosque closed,

and everyone went to refuge.

Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists left in the fore front of
COVID-19.

Though petrified of going to work, you need go to save
lives.

You sacrifice yourself and leave your family for others,

because you believe in saving lives.

No feeling to compare, after God is you.

© James Nkechi Joy

FREEDOM DISPUTED

Too long a time we rented space with freedom

and so sudden we fight to pull through.

Maybe the memories of a sad end is birthed

as everyone is drinking from the same pool.

Turbulent times as a race we face.

Ideas lost its home and panic owns our space.

Scare has grown and fed despair to maturity.

Even the world power has lost its identity.

A flip of the memory book, I saw peace;

peace now amputated as nations glimmer.

We will fight this with God and not with pills

Yes we will win because we are over comers.

© EUGENE GREAT OGEDENGBE

OUR TEARS OF PRAISE

Here are our accolades;

soaked with the tears of sympathy.

Our hands are bereft

while our souls are already killed

with the fears of the puzzled virus;

the camouflage of death.

We are here airing out our commendations.

Accept them with one heart of love.

May you live to see the end;

Oh soldiers at war

fighting the invisible

on the field filled with the thorns of death.

© Clinton Atanda

THEY RESCUED

We were masqueraded in fears,

all allures died and got buried;

vultures of great times delved

into our decayed rottenness

and chewed them raw, leaving no fragments.

All our tears did were tears

So we leapt and found them

through their lears.

All sullen, whitened like ghosts,

the browning of their brows

masked in immaculate tension,

trying to find succour, they rescued.

Amidst the rolls of being health pavers,

they turned out to be precious savers.

© Joy Olajide

TRIBUTE TO THE LIFESAVERS

How noble your being is

how true to your words you are!

How far you go for the world’s peace,

is the reason you’re the best by far.

Though everyone is home hooded,

exposed to danger, you still persevere,

seeking for the cure to this COVID-19;

a real hero you truly are.

Tears sprang from the oceans of my eyes,

as I watched you stay away from your family

seeking nothing but to prevent the rise,

in the rate of COVID-19 and its fatality.

Really, the heroes are those

who proffer solutions in times of woes.

© Ummulkhayr

LEGEND OF PEACE

I raise my horn to the legend of peace,

fighting nonstop for the world’s peace.

The enemy of the world;

deadly virus nee CORONA.

Great doctors with great mind

fighting for human oppressor ;

the affluent COVID-19

and never relent.

True legend you’re.

You know the pain of this virus,

but you never fall back.

When the situation is in pieces,

forward ever is your song.

© Oluwayimikaakiri

THE GOOD PHYSICIANS

Doctors and nurses, Patriots of health

walking along with sick patients on a journey they go
through alone.

They say “we do our best but God heals”

but I believe they are the greatest healers

on Earth representing God.

Mortals surviving under the deathly claws

of diseases striving to cure the infected.

Facing and seeing death each day,

bearing the burden of keeping the

lives of humanity.

Their lives on the line with their medicine,

our lives in infection,

running to them to save us soon.

© Sempiternal Melody Phoenix (S.M.P)

I AM IN LOVE WITH A DOCTOR

Today he wears his gloves,

tomorrow he will wear a smile

to ensure his patients are patient

as he injects away their fears.

Cheers to his soft hands that heal.

Applaud this heart, strong to death;

an oath of life, with blood we seal.

In this doctor, I have seen restoring path.

I am in love with my Doctor

who at the expense of his life

saves the abandoned soul.

Appraise my doctor, He too shall live life.

© Praise Okwuchi

MIGHT OF SOUL SALVAGERS

Aberrant assemblage of noble profession

breeding the soul salvagers

among all walks.

Thou appear to be gracious,

thy prowess is incontestable

as it spins off to be irresistible.

Thy elegance attracts perfection

making human in lack of congestion.

Thou provide solutions ethical

to unearth the souls remedial.

Thou save souls with gifted arms

and mend holes with bleeding hands.

Thy attention is incontrovertible

as thy might shall continue to rain.

© Midun

KNIGHTS IN WHITE ARMOUR

We have a life and a future,

they do too.

We have friends and family,

they do too.

We need to stay safe and protected,

they do too.

But putting us first, they chose to pay the price

of which we all will receive the prize.

With swords coated in love and sacrifice

and shields made of hope and faith,

they lead the victorious fight.

And as we raise our voices in triumph,

Let the trumpets of gold and cymbals of platinum

Ever be sounded in honour of our knights in white armour.

© Olwatomiwa

SELFLESS

Here we are in a season of world retreat;

a must for everyone to remain in their hood.

So pitiful that some persons are excluded;

the need at hand warrants their stay away

from home, leaving behind their loved

though their hearts stick closely to them.

They are committed to the work like no other,

some eventually lose their lives just to save others.

This is nothing but service to humanity.

It is nothing but love; so selfless.

What a nature of God! What a Christ-like life!

Kudos to all medical practitioners!

Stay safe, God’s got your back.

© Pope-Chris.

ODE TO THE LIFE SAVERS

Out there they are,

like soldiers at the war front,

healing and saving lives,

running from wards to wards.

Words are not enough to describe their strengths.

Leaving their families and loved ones

just to help the helpless

and save the dying.

They are indeed replicas of the sacrificial lamb.

Instruments of God’s healing, we hail you.

Your relevance is inestimable.

For the live saving job you do,

you deserve a trophy!!

© Eriikeoluwanimi

THE LIFE SHE CHOSE

Oh what a life!

She lives her life saving lives.

She leaves her family at important moments.

She leaves her family just to save lives.

Oh what a life!

Her life is characterized by selflessness.

She is tired and weak, but who can she tell?

She has only one thing in her agenda – to save lives.

Oh what a life!

© Sanni Omobolade

AN ODE TO OUR SAVIOURS

Let my mighty pen sing out praises to our saviours;

to our greatest risk bearers risking their precious lives
to save lives,

to our tender lambs laying down their lives to save
the sick.

Praises to our saviours epitomized as our Jesus.

Let my pen sing out praises;

to our saviours dying every day just to make the sick
live,

to our saviours working earnestly just as the working
clock ticks every day,

to our saviours laying down their lives on the
miserable cross of death.

Shall I then compare our saviours to Jesus?

SAVIOURS

It started gradually from the veldt.

Then it moved on and on to the hills,

to the valley and to the highways.

To the low plateau amongst the grassland

welding its destructive sword all along,

cutting lives off the blessed jungle trees

and making the whale, tiger and the hawk shudder.

Then the hunters stand with the stethoscope,

clad in white combating the disease.

Sleepless night in the hills and on the valleys

hoping to arrest the world serial killer,

putting their precious live along the line,

fighting and shooting tirelessly day and night

for the entire world to be at peace.

© Barnabas

PHILANTHROPISTS

You are given in plenitude

a passel of pure penny

and to the world you give in return.

A cup of mercy every day you sip.

Alas, some eyes are blind

to the slew you’ve saved see.

Woe to those mouths

that to your hearing; sing a scornful song.

Oh Messiah to the millions!

You are the lacks that take other’s lacks.

Stop not the work of generosity

for a day, the world will know your worth.

Heaven shall watch you grow.

Will not dry; the sea of your goodness.

© βαπur

ON THE LINE

So she left home with a kiss from hubby,

a hug from boys, the girls wrapped in her arm,

her white shirt on and stethoscope placed around her
neck perfectly.

There’s a hope she will come back home unharmed.

His wife called him at noon

“When will you be back” she said to him

“With the situations of things presently I don’t
know how soon”

With tears in her eyes she said “please be safe
for me”.

She put her life on the line

to make sure they are well and sound.

He couldn’t bear watching their health decline.

He was ready to make sure again their feet touch the
ground.

To the life of many, they brought sunshine.

Our appreciation knows no bound.

© CITRD.

KNIGHTS

Sapiens Crawler and their

belching inventions all over;

over the green.

She nurtured him,

pampering him than other crawlers.

He turned and bit her hands.

Her eyes were drying,

her scalp bald already.

Now she is sweeping.

Behold the knights

in sparkling holy white!

Interceding with their lives.

Ye knights, sapiens last hope,

We hail the!

© Bee

THE CARERS FROM ABOVE

Thou have been
sent from above,

to eliminate
mysterious illnesses

and wipe out
lethal ones.

The agility
you’ve got captured us,

we’ve got no
vibes in the loss of you.

The amazement
planted in my breath these days

tells me more
that you grip the world with your tiny injections.

Oh doctors of
all walks and all your accomplices,

fighting industriously
to regain the status quo

at the expense
of making rid of their last breath.

Sempiternal
dexter incentives belong to you.

THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL

When the clime
wears a silky garment of darkness,

in the roaring
strings of death,

with countless
virus victims,

Medical
personnel take up the chase,

risking their
precious lives,

girdling their
loin to brace others,

with tough skin
and red eyes,

tireless labour
for brothers safety,

they wear their
coats moving endlessly for treatment.

As the bleak
atmosphere whispers,

they redress
their stethoscope,

taking their
journey above the moon,

with little
attention to their wellbeing.

They’re real
heroes of the world,

trying earnestly
to end the deadly pandemics,

like warriors on
a battle field,

with unrelenting
efforts to overcome.

COVID 19 AIDER

Death race
jumped out of screen;

becoming global
experience.

Wisdom of men
went into extinct,

no knowledge
could keep the tragedy.

Science fire
cooled up in freezer,

to God all men
turned for healing.

Despite all,
stood their ground;

medical
personnel licking waters with tongues.

They face the
furnace,

saving few from
ashes.

They took up the
challenge to

fight the battle
without weariness.

While everyone
hid their head on shades,

they got
scorched by earth to save.

They do not
count their lives as nothing;

they will fight
till storm calms!

HEARTY
CHEERS

We
see you through the dim light;

working
tirelessly day and night,

going
to war with plagues like a knight,

doing
it all with all your might

and
for others, you deny yourself your right.

It
is your right to stay out of danger,

but
you choose to be out there like a ranger

saving
the life of the one who, to you, is a
stranger.

Thanks
to your great boldness, we feel stronger.

Your
profession has turned to your passion.

Your passion is laid with an incomparable compassion

And the love for your patients is beyond
comprehension.

To you, savers o life, we give hearty cheers.

TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL