<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521745" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Waiting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waiting<br>sitting in silence<br>finding things to do<br>on this normal, quiet evening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rustling papers<br>and tapping keyboard, <br>with one eye on the phone<br>waiting for disaster<br>to ring through my complacency.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can almost see<br>the sterile walls, the contained chaos<br>as hurried doctors and nurses<br>bring relief to the battle-weary <br>binding the hundred wounds<br>of collision and anger, <br>cancer and a failing heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can almost, but not quite, hear<br>The IV pumps, heart monitors, <br>crash-carts clattering down<br>shining halls, carrying the artillery<br>we aim at the enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But right now, <br>right here<br>all is quiet; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the cat mews patiently<br>for her evening meal<br>as I watch for the phone<br>to light up<br>and give me the news<br>that will shatter<br>this quiet evening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521745" data-title="Waiting de Steven Federle" data-description="Waiting sitting in silence finding things to do on this normal, quiet evening. rustling papers and tapping keyboard, with one eye on the phone waiting for disaster to ring through my complacency. I can almost see the sterile walls, the containe..."></div> </div> </div>

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