And No Loud Voices

Quiet And no loud voices Given the time it takes For anything and everything, There is time For the quiet: For thoughts all over the place, For worries, For regrets And for gratitude too, Depending on where one is On the spectrum of treatments And how able and prepared one is To deal with the invasion - Cancer does not ask permission. And so, The quiet doesn't mean Nothing is happening: A lot of care is happening, A lot of consultations, A lot of decisions, A lot of life Where ordinary and extraordinary things happen Five days a week On this Oncology Day Ward, Here in the quiet With no loud voices.