The Critical Care Cue Poem by John Sensele

Amity
Unanimity
Equinamity

A chance to balance the advance
In the morning when perchance
I opt to coopt the instance of a dance

To unite night and might
In circumstances though not quite
The desired dream to delight

Friends and foes in a show
Whose returns spurn the glow
Shining in favour of the thaw

In the parlance teeming with pain
Felt and dealt with in the rain
When Madeleine chose to diminish the drain

Resources risk if the reference
To offence and defence on the fright fence
Remains an illusion for the difference

In perception, reception and perspective
Perceived in the missive whose adjective
Blows a hole in roles the subjective

Treatment, containment and deferment
Play in the delay that waylays the instrument
Critical to the resolution of the ferment

That brews and chews views
Held n high esteem by crews
So inebriated they choose

Indifference over action
Irreverence over deduction
Irrelevance over reduction

In tension tables
Counted and recounted in fables
At the behest of chests of cables

Where protagonist and antagonist stare
At each other each daring the other to spare
A modicum of mellowness in the glare

They exude
As pranks protrude
To the fore to hurt the dandy dude

Lasses love to hate
Lads plot to get
Femmes fatales long to forget

In action and deed
When antagonism so avid indeed
Pervades motions that plead

For more harm
Less room for calm
In the bedroom on the forsaken farm

Where love in the end comes to the rescue
At night when pivotal players picked up the cue
Pulled themselves together and created the critical care queue.