• OUTSIDE THE BOX


    “Quiet!”
    the morning is early
    imagine with patience
    others, sufferers resting,
    fears pinned to beds
    pain and/or fever(s).
    awakened with the yawning
    new day's of caring,
    spelled n u r s e s,
    o r d e r l y, e t c e t e r a
    employed by
    the giving themselves
    often if only in doses
    to others not other;
    the body (human)
    licking wounds incurred
    in the living conflict,
    saving lives
    and thinking outside
    the hospital
    to that higher life,
    the form gladly signed;
    to a peer's one
    not yet speaking,
    fathomed but not at all
    phantom yet loved;
    dangerously
    like God.