The Healer

They aren’t cases

They’re patients

They aren’t diagnoses

They’re people with lives

Hopes and dreams

A future

Our struggle ends after the visit

Their struggle continues

Take away humanity in medicine

And you’re left with nothing but a stethoscope

Important and useful

But cold

Better to be sensitized

Than be desensitized and calloused

Difficult? Very much

But the reward is worth so much more

Knowing that beyond treating the ills

You’ve touched something that emits a spark

A light. A hope. A joy. A beauty

That brings humanity out of the dark

You’ve put a missing piece back

Into the part which is broken

We can’t all put in a piece every time

But it is nice to make it a goal

For in every attempt of putting in a piece

We ourselves are being made whole