Cathy Carson - Homefront Prayer

from A Silent War by Ross Thompson And Others

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Written by Ross Thompson

Read by Cathy Carson

Cathy Carson is an acclaimed spoken word performer who has read at numerous events across the country including the Tenx9, John Hewitt International Summer School, Flash Fiction Armagh, Aspects Festival, East Belfast Festival and Mount Stewart Art Of Conversation. Her writing has been published in Her Other Language and The Bramley Anthology. Cathy has also performed on radio and television.

lyrics

Thank God for nurses weeping in break rooms:
almost broken after a double shift,
cheeks striped red from elasticated strips
on masks designed to minimise the risk
of this deadly disease yet still in fear
that this thin armour is not sufficient
to safeguard the health of their families
yet with no hesitation delivering
priceless sympathy and medication
to their patients in the direst of straits.

Thank God for the doctors going over
the top, these modern day heroes
marching towards ground zero or bracing
groaning surge tents with meagre equipment
or facing the scythe with dwindling supplies
- terrified, no doubt, for their own lives yet
displaying grace under pressure: diamonds
forged in the darkness cast by a crisis,
ships made sturdy by weathering the storm,
their only directive… to do no harm...