Until We Breathe Again

摘要

Visitors don’t come here anymore, The cafeteria is nearly closed, The gift shop ladies with their t-shirts and chocolates have locked their doors and gone away. The boy with the backpack who plays the piano is nowhere to be found. The volunteers with their newspaper carts have abandoned their posts. No more flower deliveries fill the lobby, I hardly remember they ever came. The world is a quiet place now and we have become quiet with it. The hallways, still, The waiting rooms, silent, The vacant spaces of familiar halls, now nooks to run to, to rest in, to hide from, to take a moment’s breath. To tell ourselves it will be OK.