Appreciation

She worked another day today,

Heard what each patient had to say.

With delicate hands and a fragile heart,

She worked through each day as though she’d just start.

Dressed in scrubs with sterile hands,

She did of which her job demands.

Medical records lay before her eyes,

A little piece of her heart now dies.

She weighed a girl, who starved her self,

Restocked an old abandoned shelf.

To read the temperature of an infant boy,

Was like a death sentence to his mothers joy.

Checked in a case of the common cold,

A teenage pregnancy didn’t go untold.

Diabetes discovered in another young man,

Each day she swears to do all she can.

God took a life as she stood in the room,

She bowed her head to pray and dress another wound.

The life of a nurse, stressful but worth it,

And filled with compassion, too much to be writ.

So she worked another day today,

And tucked her tears and pain away.

Working full-fledged with her big heart,

She never wore out, as though she’d just start.

Empowered through which her job demands,

Doctors and nurses go hand-in-hand.

So pay your respects, look through their eyes,

To see the inspiration that is never to die.