1st Runner-up — Poetry

What Role Do They Have To Play?

One still wonders what role do pharmacists have to play...

Above all, one still questions what role does faith have to play

In the fight against this daily nightmare

That has turned friends to friendly strangers

Whom we could not hug in dare times

And families to mere familiar faces

Whom we owe faraway waves of the hand.

But to conquer this ravaging nightmare

That doesn't give the old and young a befitting burial

Pharmacists become soldiers with no guns,

They become knights with no shinning armor,

But with drugs fighting on the front line,

Hoping to bring the world back to its feet.

But the world didn't occur out of the blues,

It didn't emerge from the theory of a big bang,

The world has a Creator, humanity does have a maker.

So, while pharmacists fight on the front line for a cure,

Only the Creator can give the world its absolute healing -

because "and when I fall ill, so it is He Who heals me" ¹

Again, do you still wonder what role pharmacists have to play?

Above all, do you still question what role faith has to play?

¹ - Surah 26, Ayat 80.

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TIAMIYU Aishat's entry 'What Role Do They Have to Play?' won the second place in the poetry category. Aishat is a penultimate year student of Pharmacy, Olabisi Onabanjo University.

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