POEM: Encounter on the stairs

http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2007/08/poetry-from-nurses-and-doctors-part-i.html
The link has a set of poems written by doctors and nurses in a Boston hospital (USA). The one below caught me in the heart.

ENCOUNTER ON THE STAIRS
By Warner V. Slack, MD

Next to Children’s Hospital, in a hurry
Down the stairs, two at a time
Slowed down by a family, moving slowly
Blocking the stairway, I’m in a hurry
I stop, annoyed, I’m in a hurry
Seeing me, they move to the side
A woman says softly, “sorry” in Spanish
I look down in passing, there’s a little boy
Unsteady in gait, holding onto an arm
Head shaved, stitches in scalp
Patch over eye, thin and pale
He catches my eye and gives me a smile
My walk is slower for the rest of the day