The waiting Room

The Waiting Room


A crowded room;

except for those -

who seem familiar

or warily unknown.

Ten pairs of eyes,

assess me casually

impatience, carefully concealed.

Odd - no clock;

No definition of time measured

to rearrange the anxious tick -

tock of my thoughts

of –

diagnosis -

treatment -

surgery -

or

painful death.


OOps! I’m called;

I’m in -

my worries fade

in sharing them -

Until………