Time

Jenelle Jindal, MD

The clothing is all wrinkled
Hangers on the floor
Carpet dark and full of dust
When you come through that door

Ah! You say to yourself
“What a terrible mess”
Your sour mood convinces
The house opposite of best

Then one day you sit
In the time machine of life
30 years go by and
You look back on all that strife

And

Without a doubt
You’d trade
All the riches of the earth
For That Day
You witnessed a
Time of priceless worth

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April 13, 2026

The clothing is all wrinkled

Hangers on the floor

Carpet dark and full of dust

When you come through that door

Ah! You say to yourself

“What a terrible mess”

Your sour mood convinces

The house opposite of best

Then one day you sit

In the time machine of life

30 years go by and

You look back on all that strife

And

Without a doubt

You’d trade

All the riches of the earth

For That Day

You witnessed a

Time of priceless worth

Jenelle Jindal, MD

Jenelle Jindal writes poems the way a physician works toward a diagnosis: through close attention to what presents itself. Her work uses the compressed lyric to examine the craft of medicine, asking how we describe, teach, and measure what resists easy instrumentation in care. At its deepest, that attention becomes presence, a quality both poetry and medicine demand but cannot fully teach. She studied biological sciences and linguistics at Stanford before training in medicine and neurology at Yale and at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.

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