Thank You For Saving All of Us
Unsung heroes abound
They are all around you
And most of the time
You never know who they are
I had occasion today
To thank one such man
A very unassuming gentleman
Who really saved the world
In my curiosity
I had seen Moncef Slaoui all over television
He headed Operation Warp Speed
The race to find a vaccine
What turned out to be most special
Is that he’s my neighbor
And I had seen him walking in the neighborhood
On a pretty regular basis
Today I ran into him at the gym
And I had a chance to say something
That I wanted to say for a long time
“Thank you for saving all of us”
I think he was surprised that I knew who he was
But he was most grateful for the thanks
And the handshake that followed
An unsung hero of the maximum degree