Covid-19, one year on: Nick Southorn
To mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic, members of Team UHDB are sharing their thoughts and reflections of their personal and work lives during Covid-19.
The pandemic will have had a very different impact on each and every one of us, so the one year anniversary since we started to see the first inpatients admitted is a good opportunity to reflect on the year gone and to look forward.
Today, Nick Southorn, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, from our Hospital out of Hours team at RDH, has shared a powerful poem about the loss of a patient during the pandemic, which you can read below:
A body again, it’s cooling fast,
A soul without pain, free at last,
Are the family amassed, are they in the frame?
Has she a past? Has she a name?
While I condole, my breath is bated,
The windows to the soul, fixed and dilated,
Death is life in contrast, no light, no aim,
Has she a past? Has she a name?
A heart that loved, ached and lusted,
Arms that hugged, a mind that trusted,
They’ve done their last, not to their shame,
Has she a past? Has she a name?
Life is extinct, she can depart,
Our lives now linked, at least in part,
I now have asked, the answer came,
She has a past. She has a name.
If you're part of #TeamUHDB and would like to take part in our One Year On campaign, you can post to social media using the #oneyearonUHDB hashtag, or send your photos, videos, poems, songs, reflections or ideas to uhdb.communications@nhs.net