Together and waiting
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* Daniel Thomas Moran

*   Art and medicine
*   arts in health/arts and health
*   community arts
*   Dentist

> The people in the waiting room at the hospital
> 
> cannot help but wonder just what is wrong
> 
> with everyone else.

> The old woman in the borrowed wheelchair.
> 
> The man with the bandaged right hand.
> 
> The brown child whose mother is crying.

> Someone has taped paper flowers to the wall.

> A person in a green outfit will come for them soon.
> 
> They will learn, one at a time, the names of

> The old woman in the borrowed wheelchair.
> 
> The man with the bandaged right hand.
> 
> The brown child whose mother is crying.

> They all just want to be OK,
> 
> for the person in the green outfit to tell them so.
> 
> Then they can be happy again, happy
> 
> to be gone from the waiting room at the hospital.

> And they can forget the colors of the paper flowers taped to the wall
> 
> and the names they had learned one at a time.

## Footnotes

*   Competing interests None.

*   Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.