© Provided by Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Limited, t/a dmg Media Ireland Michael D Higgins has written a poem for the Irish people encouraging them to Stay Calm. Pic: EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

President Michael D Higgins has written a stunning poem encouraging Irish people to ‘take care’ during the current global situation.

The poem, called Take Care, was shared on the President’s Facebook page and encouraged Irish people to keep the faith as ‘dark moments should not threaten belief’.

President Higgins urged followers to ‘hold firm, take care, come home together’.

He also encouraged people to stay strong as ‘to weaken is to die in the misery of knowing the journey abandoned.’

Michael D Higgin has regularly updated the Irish people and recently encouraged people to practise social distancing.

‘All of us in Ireland now must realise that social distancing – keeping a physical distance of no less than 2 metres or 6.5 feet – is one of the best measures we have to protect our people,’ he said.

© Provided by Extra.ie Michael D. Higgins poem encouraged people to keep hope during the current situation. Pic: APA-PictureDesk GmbH/REX

‘I would appeal to those who have found these measures difficult, to simply begin again during this crucial week and to go further.’

Speaking to Dublin’s FM104, the President encouraged people to stay positive and know that what they do know will impact life when this is all over.

‘I think it’s very important for people to concentrate on the time when it will be over,’ he said.

© Provided by Extra.ie President Michael D. Higgins attends the welcoming ceremony by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. Pic: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

‘It will be over, but it will be over with the least loss of life and the least hardship if, in fact, we do what is tough now but what is necessary.

‘It will be over and we are in control of how it will turn out.’

© Provided by Extra.ie Michael D Higgins shared the poem on his Facebook page. Pic: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Take Care – Michael D Higgins

In the journey to the light,

the dark moments

should not threaten.

Belief

requires

that you hold steady.

Bend, if you will,

with the wind.

The tree is your teacher,

roots at once

more firm

from experience

in the soil

made fragile.

Your gentle dew will come

and a stirring

of power

to go on

towards the space

of sharing.

In the misery of the I,

in rage,

it is easy to cry out

against all others

but to weaken

is to die

in the misery of knowing

the journey abandoned

towards the sharing

of all human hope

and cries

is the loss

of all we know

of the divine

reclaimed

for our shared

humanity.

Hold firm.

Take care.

Come home

together.

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