The Heart of a Healer

Copyright 1996 by Jane Freitag

What goes on in the heart of a healer?
What fragile battles are raged in her soul?
To face those who love, who shall live, who shall die--
The balance of life is her only goal.

But what goes on in the heart of a healer?
Who does she turn to when she is in pain?
When life around her no longer has meaning?
When death has left her with nothing to gain?

She cries in the night on a passing friend's shoulder.
She buries her heart in the work to be done.
She hides all her tears and turns a day older.
She faces the morning, a new day begun.

What goes on in the heart of a healer?
When heartache's replaced with miracles wild?
There's sunlight to shine in the place of confusion.
Death lies in the shade of the birth of a child.