A Poor Life?
"What is this life, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.."
I work in a hospital. I have been working in one or the other hospital for a couple of years now.
I have seen great physicians, surgeons, healers, wielding their weapons to fight against the ills of humanity...
"No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:"
I have seen ordinary people like you and me overcome the boundaries of hunger, sleep, and fatigue to save lives.. day after day.. everyday..
"No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:"
I have seen people use their immense talents to not make money, but to serve the people who actually need their help..
"No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:"
And yet, these are the very people who never have the time to turn back and look at the mind numbing impact they have had on the lives of so many people..
"No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:"
These are the people who miss out on the first steps that a baby born with a crippling malformation takes after she has faced the legendary kind cruelty of a surgeon's knife..
"No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?"
These are the people who spend hours before a surgery to investigate and analyse the tiniest of details so a baby may be restored eyesight.. a wonder it may have never exoerienced before..
but fail to see the joy in those very eyes light up many a face. Not because they have no finer feelings in them.
But because there are more to heal.
"A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
-Leisure. W.H.Davies
