Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Day 15, Sonnet 15

Diagnosis. The word alone strikes fear

With naming’s power of definition.

Malignancy treads rather roughly here:

Belief alone begets not remission.

They say that healers’ hands rely on faith

And so too, should patients’ constitutions.

But hope alone cannot always replace

Corporeal pain with absolution.

But in this hour let faith be not benign

Though muttered prayers cannot a spine rebuild

Nor tumours shrink nor broken bones align

These tools of faith like surgeon’s hands are skilled.

Let prayer offer sutures for the soul

And while the body heals make spirits whole.

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