Emergency Exit
By mcscraic
Mon, 08 Feb 2021
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Paul F. McCann
EMERGENCY EXIT
In a hospital tent where the injured are sent
There’s never enough hours in the day.
There’s no rest for the wicked even less for the good,
and there’s always a high price to pay
Since war had begun the casualties come
in a steady flow at the emergency door.
No one reimburses the doctors and nurses for all the hours
they spend on the floor.
Waves of apprehension built a bridge through the tension
as the incoming wounded arrived.
For carried on stretchers from the Red Cross ambulances
are some soldiers barely alive.
Pack and swab,
Oh dear God it’s a hell of a job,
with no rest for the medical crew.
Some were chosen to survive the explosion
yet the operation they never saw through.
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