Thursday, April 09, 2020

Triage (The Value of a Life)

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES



Triage (The Value of a Life)

How much is a life worth?
Do we calculate the value of creativity?
How much is the value of age?
What price do we place on genius? 
How much is philosophy worth? 

The decision of who lives and dies
Comes down to simple equations
But the numbers can never reflect
The true value of a human life

What if Einstein was diabetic? 
What if Mother Teresa was too old?
What if Tesla was jobless?
What if Curie was too cold? 

Shakespeare Mozart Blake the Beats
Would they make the grade? 
Longfellow Wordsworth Sitting Bull Yeats
Would modern medicine come to their aid?

You can place a number on any thing
But its value remains a mystery

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