Back In The Waiting (Truth in Signage) Room

I never chose to sit here; I did neither an interview nor an audition. The biopsy did it, No, I never chose to be here, Where the fish swim And the patients sit, The fish in their aquarium And we patients on our chairs - waiting. The Oncology Day Ward - No, I never chose this, But here I am, Five months of chemotherapy And four months now of immunotherapy later, I stay startled At how my world, while contracting, has expanded On this one small ward; My sight and insight keener, My hearing more acute, My compassion and empathy Awakened from slumber Amidst all the lessons beyond number, Here Where I never chose to sit.