Baa Baa Black Sheep

https://www.rt.com/news/484935-us-takes-masks-germany/


https://nationalpost.com/news/world/3m-says-trump-officials-have-told-it-to-stop-sending-face-masks-to-canada



Baa, Baa Black sheep

Have you any masks?

One for the hospitals

And one for the nurses

One for the doctors

To save them from the worst pass

But the US has issued decrees

You can’t import them

We’re keeping them for ourselves

And other medical needs

Just save yourself

You can make them from cloth

We’re keeping them for Americans

Not Canadians

Now look at us and do your worst

You namby, pamby, too polite Canadians

Is it profiteering?

Is it selfishness?

Or both?

What makes someone claim

All the medical supplies are theirs

We share a border

We share businesses
We send medical staff
Dcotors and nurse
Across the line

We give and we give

You take and you take

Now you want to us

To give everything

And leave us nothing?

We are not the dirt

Under your feet

We are not expendable

For your mistakes

We care about you

Though sometimes

You seem 

The black sheep

Of the family

We share, because we care

We are in this together

Let’s work together

And save us all

Ventilators and masks for all

©Sheilagh Lee  April 4, 2020

Kindness Prevails

Life in the time of uncertainty

Precious moments missed

Precious moments doled out

Over internet we share

A smile a wave to relatives

Friends too

Connected by voice and hope

Near and far

Stories told by voice and video

Intimacy communicated

That human need to be

With people still survives

Even with physical distancing

We are one

In this together

Kindness prevails

We’ll survive

Humanity will win.

©Sheilagh Lee  April 3, 2020

Persevere

©Sheilagh Lee  April 2, 2020

Together

©Sheilagh Lee  April 1, 2020

Unthinking behaviour

Alone

In a sea of voices

Crying out in

Boredom

Anguish

Despair

Physical Distance

We share on Facebook

We reachout on Twitter

A necessity

A plague

A pandemic

The voices cry

Some voices shout

You won’t get me

They break out

Spread disease and havoc

In their wake

Some die, some don’t

Their selfish unthinking behavior

Condemns us all.

©Sheilagh Lee  March 27, 2020

Happy World Kindness Day

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Waiting

I know you're waiting

For that ride 

Your love is coming 

Finally 

To take you away

I'm happy for you

you'll have no pain

No more worries, or woe

Youth will find you again

My heart bleeds 

For my mother 

Is going home

And I'll miss you 

Forever more

©Sheilagh Lee  May 12, 2019

For June

For June

If I could have picked

A mother-in –law

She’d have been

A lot like you

A giving mother

With a sense of humor

Who taught her children

To be clever and kind

To be generous

Without a thought

To express themselves

Without worry or reprisal

That debate was lively conversation

Within a family

No ill will was thought

That acceptance to the family

Was because love abided here

©Sheilagh Lee  May 17, 2019

I miss you ❤️

RIP June

If I had wings

If I had wings

If I had wings

I’d want to fly

High up in the sky

To touch the heavens

To see your smile

Just one more time

To hear your voice

But even now

I close my eyes

I hear your voice

Your wisdom echoes

Deep within my mind

I see the smile

That could have launched

A thousand ships

But that chose

To birth and raise

Six children

How lucky we were

To have such a tender soul

To teach and guide us

Thank- you Mom

For everything and know

We miss you still.

©Sheilagh Lee  May 11, 2019