Wheel Count - Sometimes It Helps

One of the things one does here On an early morning Friday In the still quiet, 4 blue chaired Treatment room On the Oncology Day Ward: A wheel count. This morning I count 82 In this one room alone. This room, this ward, this hospital - Where would it be without them?! The whole place would pull, drag, push and scrape To a halt - Without wheels. ---- This is what I do This quiet morning; I count wheels - and wait. And sometimes, though not for long, It takes my mind off The young ones here. They break your heart, they do, Into pieces. Counting wheels helps a bit... But not really.