John Lentini

Why a Physician?

 

Why a physician have I become?

Close to humanity day after day

When indeed I crave a different life

The life of blue and green

The wonder of nature is my salvation

    the trees

          the sky

                the water

                      the rain

 

How I prefer to converse with them

    to be in their holy presence

 

Prefereth I to be without words

    for then I may hear your silence

Prefereth I to be without pretense

    for then I may feel your presence

Prefereth I to be without a front

    for then I may see your essence

Prefereth I to be naked

    for then we may be one

 

A life of a physician have I chosen,

    yet a poet shall I always be

Perhaps in some way I may bridge the two

    and have nature heal man