Volume 6 | 2024 Voices from the Wards
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Gravida
A mother’s fourth babyMy first to help deliverIt’s a successI walk out elatedBeaming While sharing the joyWith a fellow classmateI’m interruptedBy a resident rushingTo be embracedBy another colleaguePushing words through tearsA baby did not make itJust next door to the mother of four
Begin Again
I know what I wantI want the patients to feelSome semblance of neutral“Healthy” being the motionless nodesAlong that sinusoidal waveWith its own peaks and troughsOf pain, of anxiety, of uncertaintyAndOf relief, of hope, of healingLet us give them that equilibriumSo that they can begin again