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Ken Dryden has written a poem about the brutal relentlessness of COVID-19.

The former federal cabinet minister, NHL legend and author said he wrote it last week, after much thought.

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It captures our apparent powerlessness in this most unnerving of moments:

For all of us who don’t know

We can read what we want to read

Believe what we want to believe

Hope what we want to hope

Say what we want to say

Eloquently, beautifully, compellingly, persuasively

Presidents, prime ministers, dictators

We can blog, tweet, post, proclaim

Reach thousands, millions

We can want what we want

Do what we want

COVID-19 is not impressed.