Empowered? – Not yet! – But Impatient To Be So!

I’m nobody’s patient patient

The system is all awry

It thinks I was born for patience

For patience until I die

But I was born impatient

To throw things and to cry

To scope life with other Impatients

But mostly to get by

I’m grateful - when I’m a patient

If ill – I’m prepared thereby

With the facts – to wait in patience

Without them I’m high and dry

I’m angry and I’m impatient

And if I’ve been told a lie

Disempowered – like other Impatients

I will not sit by and sigh

I’ll tell you that as your patient

The one who needs to defy

I will work over time and patience

To learn what you do – to pry

To change for us – all impatient

The system of health – your tie

From ill to good health – for Impatients

Work with me or I’ll ask why

The system must suit the patient

Must find what works and espy

The way to improve - in patience

The way to re-cut the pie

To serve the people impatient

The slice they need – and to vie

To bring the best – to Impatients

That’s what we can do if we try

Professional – Carer – or Patient

Loud woman or very shy guy

Set limits upon your patience

Take only what works – Magpie

Insist on the best – be impatient

Get rid of the worst thereby

Bad service produces Impatients

With work we can kiss it “Goodbye!”

02Dec2013

So that there is no mistake:

Impatient – I am impatient – I am an Impatient(sing.) - We are Impatients (plu.)

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