
To nurses working day and night
to answer every urgent call
though needed elsewhere down the hall:
While rising to uncharted height,
you stretch yourselves beyond the norm
with steady empathetic form
in carrying compassion’s light
from room to room. Encouragement
accompanies each flourish sent
through dimmest corridors despite
the toll a bad prognosis draws
when healing treatment’s held on pause.
Ungracious patients seized with fright
extort demands you can’t fulfill,
but you react with kindness still.
I tip my hat with all my might
to nurses caring for me now
and aides as well deserve a bow.
To nurses working day and night
while rising to uncharted height
in carrying compassion’s light
through dimmest corridors despite
ungracious patients seized with fright,
I tip my hat with all my might.
2018 Mary Boren
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