The World of the Hospital

The pathetic screams and the craving wishes of undoing of death;

The crying mothers and bereaved wives, the orphaned children and mutilated relations;

The matter-of-fact doctors and the apathetic nurses;

The people hurrying inside the hospital, the people hurrying to heaven;

The deathbed for one subsequently a recovery bed for another;

The prescriptions to the chemists and black tickets to the mortuary;

The atmosphere of looming uncertainty,

The sleep and sleeplessness of many;

The life-shortening constraints of the material world and the medical luxuries that come with the excess of the same.

The frequent emergencies, the sepulchral ICUs, the beeping monitors and the morbid general wards;

The special smiles of relief and solemn secretive prayers;

The reminders of disrupted routines and abandoned appointments;

A fear in the heart transforming confidence in the ailing dear-one;

Get-well cards and mounting bedside bills;

This is the complex world of the hospital, the gateway between life and space, into and out of.