Children’s Ward, St Mary’s Hospital
Six o’clock is striking
clear.
“Come on,wakey,wakey dear!”
Says the nurse, all stiff
and starched;
Nose aloof and eyebrows arched.
“Temperatures just
must be taken.”
Drowsily the children waken.
Yawning mouths and
stretching arms
Greet the nurse with all her charms.
Here comes the
breakfast, “Good for you
Come on children, eat it do!”
Then
it's bath time. “All quite clean?
Toys out, now that doctor's
been.”
Lunch arrives, gravy and meat,
Vegetables and then the
sweet.
Tidy up, re-make the beds,
Brush the unkempt tousled heads.
For
it’s visiting time again.
Here comes Mum and sister Jane.
“Bye
bye dear! Don't cry! Be good!
Act the way you know you should.”
Time
to play ’til tea appears.
"Drink your milk and eat up
dears.”
Medicine goes down with ease;
“Wash and brush up if you
please!”
Off to sleep. Dream cares away
In readiness for a brand new
day,
When events will be once more
Exactly as they were before!
Wendy Pearce