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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