Waiting Room, by Daniel Brown

Waiting Room, by Linnea Brown (USA) 2018

Waiting Room

For these faces
dispossessed
nothing changes 
only waiting
gaps in synapse 
for these faces,
brief hope, medication
isolation drunk with poison
languished time tables
empty promise
for these faces
no arrivals or departures
a mask
of slumped despair,
juxtaposed, lonely anguish
for these faces
for these faces 
in the waiting room
eyes locked, wrinkled silence
in darkness, separated
in darkness, separated
juxtaposed, lonely anguish
empty promise
gaps in synapse 
for these faces,
waiting room.
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Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown is a retired Special Education teacher. His poems include a variety of styles and subjects from Haiku to poems about music, art and social issues. Daniel’s work has been published in Chronogram, Jerry Jazz Musician And Mightier: Poets For Social Justice among others. He reads his poetry from time to time on his YouTube channel “Poetry From Shooks Pond” and is working on his first collection Family Portraits in Verse. He lives in Red Hook, New York.