The caregiver

His boyhood hero was Walt Whitman,
Caregiver on the bloody battlefields of 1860...
Both poet and nurse Whitman gave it all.

The modern caregiver lived until age 90
He had helped everyone he could
Women and children, the poor and hungry.
He nursed the sick until the wee hours.

On his last night, he heard the cock crow,
In the way, you do when your life is o'er;
I can do more, "He cried out!"
Your reward awaits Walter, come home!