To the Survivors

If you are reading this, you have survived

Another day of struggle and travail

Another fiendish plot, darkly contrived

Another bill deferred to no avail

You have escaped another plague most foul

Endured another war waged by mad fools

Though you did shiver, hearing wild beasts howl

You found refuge, and followed stringent rules

Though safety has an inflated, vile cost

And you must do a boring job to eat

You are not yet counted among the lost

And you might live to your smug boss defeat

Whatever else, survivors we all are

Let's recognize each other, near or far