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The Waiting Room

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The Waiting Room

Slowly, ever so gently

moving steadily forward

embracing a lifetime of waiting.

Expectation inspires a fruitful anticipating.

One day brings an appointment

a dreaded trip to a waiting room.

Anxiously sitting in hushed contemplation

The wall clock ticks, rasping like a gong’s boom.

An overwhelming silence

 bringing an awareness of the sacredness of presence.

Scattered amongst the almost reverent patients.

There is a hoping for the doctor quickly calling my name.

Each person present, quietly feeling the same.

In the ensuing moments

more thoughts of mortality.

These knock insistently upon the consciousness

tales of heaven and hell race about in a fretful mind

occupied now by the comfort of happiness for eternity.

I feel like I am in church, eager to hear the bell ringing.

The hymn starting, a congregation singing.

Softly spoken words

float across the air.

Here others interrupt their own thoughts

glancing over, smiling, a reassuring stare.

“Come this way.”

the doctor speaks

 “Take a seat,

how may I help you today?”

the sign of the cross,

well let’s just find out

what will he say?

Not an issue of bad news I pray.

Life is a waiting game.

Birth, life, death, a shared fate

proclaiming after all, that deep down we are all the same.

 

In the field of living, endeavour, valour, integrity thrives.

Until the put off for now destination arrives.

The desire for answers consumes.

Where the stark reality of our fragile nature looms.

This waiting turns one day finally into an ending.

While promising the herald of a bright new beginning!

 

Fr Patrick Brennan September 2025 © All rights reserved 


Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-waiting-room.html



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