Ode to library staff

Dear Editor:

The following is a poem dedicated to the staff in the Wellington County library system.

I wish to sing your praises
To thank each one of you
For your kindness and efficiency
In everything you do.

You’ve always been this way
But the recent months, have shown
You’ve exceeded our expectations,
And appreciation for you has grown.

The faces of our library,
You became “beacons in the dark.”
With curbside pick-up and on-line service
“You hit it right out of the park.”

For readers like myself,
Books can be refuge from the storm.
As the pandemic blew around us
Reading continued to be the norm.

With life around us changing,
We got to know you all by name.
And the joy of a book to hold and read
You ensured it remained the same.

Thank you for a “job well done.”

Janet Murphy,
Minto