Someone Cares

Ambulance, Fire, Police...the siren matters not

 

Someone Cares

 

Deep into the night

They sleep in restless dreams

Numbed from day of endless requests

Countless times they done this task

And broken the silence of cool night air.

 

Whether pain or illness

They ask not for either

But answer each as if it were first

Blaring, blasting and cutting the deep night

Asking from others a second of time.

 

Count you that breach

Of peaceful bliss

As rudeness sent only to you?

Return you to slumber

They go on without such.

 

Mind what they request

And let them pass by

Answering calls from strangers no less

Angered are you as the lights cut the night?

Maybe one day, for you they will come.

 

Yes, now think on that time

As you wait for the answer

To the call you’ve made

Desperate for help are you

Facing the Reaper while hope fast fades.

 

Unknowing or uncaring, all same

Ask not why that siren blares

Or lights blast darkness away

For that siren’s blare

Means someone cares.

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Marie]

So true. Great write.

[Jenny Davis]

Pete, this is exceptional...I have seen many drivers who don't get out of the way for ambulances and I get sooo mad at that! People should always pull to the right and let that ambulance by! You are so right...it can be one of us who needs them...and yes, it proves someone cares...well said :)

[Angel Bird]

This is a great piece and should be glued to the wall in every waiting room in hospitals and in every medical practice. Fortunately nowadays such services exist, and especially not forgetting about those wonderful creatures who have made it a goal in their lives to help people in pain and illness.
Yes if nobody cares, at least these guys do care some. This is indeed a great article. Good work!