The Waiting

Kurt Swanson, MD
School of Medicine and Public Health
2023
Poem

 

Not enough organs

For those needing transplants

 

I grieve for our Waiting

Who waited without a chance

 

Of receiving what they needed

Whose time ran out

 

Before the Gift of Life could restore

What Failure left them without

 

To those who left us Waiting

We strive to end this Wait

 

To bring the Gift of Life to all

and end Death by Wait