Patient

adjective

• able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious

noun

• a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment
• Linguistics the semantic role of a noun phrase denoting something that is affected or acted upon by the action of a verb.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French, from Latin patient- 'suffering', from the verb pati

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Patient
patient waiting
Anesthetic fog
passing

"You
did great,
but no
sample."

Days
lift off
her calendar
fills

Another
surgery scheduled
Searching for
abnormal

"You
did great."
Patient patient
waits

"Did
he tell
you? It's
cancer."

This
fog takes
longer to
pass

Her
birthday lands
in the
middle
and
she curses
commercials playing
again--
the
'Official Sponsor
of Birthdays'
hurts

Celebrating
her birth
was hard
already
...always
had been...
her day
wasn't
worth
anything because
she wasn't
worthy

Patient
patient keeps
moving forward
through

Procedures
and appointments
dictate her
time

This
is when
she feels
OK

Scheduled
time is
a calming
norm

So
she rests
while drugs
flow

And
she writes
between her
naps

And
she trys
believing she's
worthy