Surgeon

Surgery

Could the surgery
Be painless
The cut any less deep
As the surgeon cuts away
The cancer

Would she offer a kindness
To remove
only a portion
Of the infection
Does she spare the patient

Rather loving action
Requires,
Inflicting temporary harm
To remove the offending
contagion

Only then
may the patient heal
Possibly made whole
once more

Take courage
patient

HE who began
a good work in you
will
see it through to completion