C A L L W A I T I N G
I’m laying in the darkness, I cannot fall asleep.
I wonder where my husband is, I wish he’d call or beep.
I saw him leave this morning, the black boots on his feet.
He said he had to run now, and I know he’s on the street.
You’ll know him when You see him, his truck is very loud.
He has no time to stop now, he doesn’t want a crowd.
A caller said “Please hurry!” Come quickly if you will.
A young man with a motorbike is laying very still.
A mother calls in anguish, her child limp and blue.
HURRY! Come, I need you! I don’t know what to do.
I hear his key turning, he’s coming in the door.
I hear him drop his boots, then footsteps on the floor.
I hear him in the kitchen, I can tell from his walk,
He’ll soon come and wake me, and ask if we can talk.
We’ll sit out in the moonlight, and listen to the night.
He talks about a shooting, a streetgang in a fight.
A car crash, a drowning, a small child hurt at play.
The things he needs to talk about, the things he did today.
The old, the sick, the injured, some so very small.
He did all he could to help them, he answered every call.
Every day he has a mission, he knows it in his heart.
He does everything he can and always does his part.
If you are sick or injured and you need to reach my Hon,
I can tell you how to reach him, his number is ……911.
A Firefighter’s Wife
Absolutely beautiful! Very touching!
Thanks Chrissy,
I of course did not write the poem, but there are so many out there. I’m trying to get them in between posts. I don’t want to just fill up on poems to make us all cry.
Not what it’s all about by any means!
i just came across your page somehow & can’t keep myself from reading your post….love the posts!! I too am a firefighters wife & this one touched my heart!
Thanks Andrea,
If there’s ever anything you can think of you’d like to see addressed please let me know. We’ve been in the fire service for about 8 years now so there are some things I’ve already gotten used to and forget I deal with them on a daily basis.
this is a very touching poem. I never realized all the things they see.
Yes, it’s a very real poem and a good one. On a bad day I know my hubby could go on every one of the calls in the poem.
Hi~ I was in search of the perfect firefighters wife poem and came across your page! I love it! You have a lot beautiful poems. Thanks for posting them!
Hi Shelley,
Thanks for stopping by, so glad you found a poem you liked
That reminds me I need to go search out some more.
this is so beautiful. im not a wife of a firefighter but i am the girlfriend of a firefighter and we have been to gether for almost 2 years and when i read things like this it makes me really think.
Is this a good hmm, rough hmm? There are many forms of making you think. Congrats on being with your FF 2 years
well its a emotional thinking thing. and thank you for the congrats! i know there will b many more years!
There is no “dealing” with the emotional as we are all different. I’m reading the Firefighter’s Wife right now and even though I am not with even close to 100% I still understand her and reason with her on so many levels and so many quotes have made me laugh out loud.
It’s never easy. I get to balance how much safer this is from his last job in construction, but that doesn’t make it easier.
i love this poem, it truely is what it is…i hope and pray that i will have the strength, he thinks because im not mushy , and “lovey dovey” and say when hes gone at night ill be okay,because when i am talking to him , and he is at work and the dispatch goes off, and hear the call” my heart stops for a minute, all i say is talk to you later , i love u… but i dont truely show him how i feel, i cant let him know the only one person that he has to count on is weak, i want him to see me smile, and always have that confidences::::: everyone goes home, and hes coming right back home to me:::::
Yes, it’s a double-edged sword. They shouldn’t be worried about us while they are at work so they don’t endanger themselves further. But they do need to know we worry about them and are greatful they are safe. Human nature makes all of us that way.
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That truly says it all. Thanks for posting this piece!
Great poem…thank you!
This poem hits so close to home! My husband is a volunteer and has been in the fire service for 5 years now, and I myself have been volunteering for almost 4 years now. While reading this poem, I started to remember a call I had for each one of the incidents in the poem. I forget after 4 years of volunteering all the bad I have seen, but also the good. Thank you for posting this poem.
Glad you’ve been able to move past and forget much of the bad Hannah. Thanks for commenting.
Twitter: rebelxgirl069
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I’m a firefighter’s girlfriend, but I still love the posts of your’s I’ve came across when I’ve been looking for quotes & things.
Glad you found my site, hope you find articles to help or just make you laugh while he’s at work.
@HotWife,
Who made this magnificent poem?
It really caught my attention.
Anyways, thanks for posting this one. ^_^
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There haven’t been any authors that I can find to give credit to the poem Katherine. I always link to them when I find them.
Who made this poem? It’s such a nice poem. I read it nice twice because it’s very nice. Thanks for posting!