{"id":2173,"date":"2025-01-12T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:09:25","slug":"the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2025\/01\/12\/the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2034\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2024\/01\/Jo-Hawkins-2024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jo Hawkins\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2024\/01\/Jo-Hawkins-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/files\/2024\/01\/Jo-Hawkins-2024-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You were stillness<br \/>\nA Well of depthless inactivity<br \/>\nAmongst the motion<br \/>\nFrenetic concentration<br \/>\nBlue dress staring at lit screens<br \/>\nBeside you<br \/>\nNot involving you<br \/>\nYour stillness a stark wall<br \/>\nOf non-involvement<br \/>\nI stood,<br \/>\nWishing to be part of your pool,<br \/>\nTo step within your well<br \/>\nBut caught in the maelstrom<br \/>\nOf activity around you.<br \/>\nYour stillness is not contagious<br \/>\nBut I can\u2019t look away<br \/>\nI shall join you now<br \/>\nTo be still<br \/>\nTogether.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2025\/01\/05\/the-rock-and-the-crime\/\">The rock and the crime<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2024\/12\/02\/my-tower-your-heart\/\">My Tower. Your heart.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2024\/11\/15\/the-palliative-times-special-education-issue\/\">The Palliative Times. Special education issue<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 You were stillness A Well of depthless inactivity Amongst the motion Frenetic concentration Blue dress staring at lit screens Beside you Not involving you Your stillness a stark wall Of non-involvement [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2025\/01\/12\/the-well\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poets-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}