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A waiting room at the Eye Clinic

A child crying incessantly in A&E next door

A forty five minute delay

A silence between phone calls

A stream of names called out for treatment

A gradual emptying out

A check to see who's left

A wait

A distant voice drifting to the empty chairs

A doctor says goodnight

A cleaner empties the bins

Brian Hick August 2015

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Why do we wait?

Animals don't wait.

They do nothing, happily,

Hour after hour

Until they need to feed

Or lust to copulate

Then there's no waiting

They go at it until

It's done and then

They do nothing

Again.

But we ...

Brian Hick April 2013

©copyright Sally Hick 7.4.25 

 Waiting

I sit and wait for your return -

If only that were all,

For thoughts which are no use to us

Divert my mind, so all

The time I could anticipate

Seeing you again

Is frittered into mindless games

Of who and why and when.

Even simple meditation

Seems to just dissolve

Re-running minor problems

Which gain a strangle-hold

While all the time I want to be

Cut off from futile chatter

To ensure that when we meet

Nothing else will matter.

Brian Hick 2009

©copyright Sally Hick 2.9.22