Author Information
The Police
The Police
By JFarrell
If you see a police officer,
Today, tomorrow, next week,
Please go up and say
Thank you.
We may not all like the police,
It doesn’t matter;
When a scumbag detonates a bomb
They, and the other emergency services,
Rush in to help
Where I, and many of us, would run away.
They are not perfect,
Who is?
They’re never around when you want one,
And if you are not white, you may well feel harassed by them.
But when some cowardly nutjob
Detonates a bomb at a children’s concert
Or drives a car into a group of pedestrians
These people rush in to help.
Twenty two people, many of them kids, died last night,
That number may go up;
But many more were saved
Because of the actions of the brave boys in blue
(and the other emergency services).
So, if you see a police officer
Please say thank you.
*Dedicated to all the emergency services
And the victims of terrorism everywhere.
