The waiting room

  The waiting room
 with patients – 
 and patient understanding
  
 Looking down
 the phone rings loud
 destroying sounds of silence
  
 The baby cries
 the mother meets
 demands and tempered toils
  
 The doctor calls
 the chair departs
 opinion turns to spoils
  
 Unknowingly
 the reason why
 she sits in care-free room
  
 Her arm on show
 she doesn’t know
 if satisfied or gloom
  
 Broken down
 the problem grows
 yet cannot be revealed
  
 Symptomatic
 of an ageing tribe
 unknowingly she feels
  
 Referral is the 
 magic word and
 one without decision
  
 Pass it on 
 or pay it forward
 delay will bring rescission
  
 How to choose
 how to improve
 does one want to enter
  
 The sooner left
 set and forget
 the problem can be vented
  
 Expertise to find
 another rind – 
 medicinally yearning
  
 A better, smoother
 stronger sense of
 educated learning
  
 Prefer prevention
 than to treat – 
 but how to when not present
  
 Round and round
 the circle goes
 the essence is dependence