Life's Cycle

 

Bursting with curiosity, energy and ambition

they have applied themselves rigorously

to the profession of their choice in the

healing arts. They become familiar with

the mechanical dynamics of biology and

enthralled with the vital importance of

knowledge beyond that of the feeble elderly

who depend on their skills to alleviate the

burden that age has imposed on their failing

organs. These are those who have intimate

knowledge of life's fading timeline, their

purpose to extend the date as long as possible.

Existence is a priceless commodity and so is

nature's gift that prevents the young from the

epiphany of certainty that there, one day go I

and in its absence their focus is on those whose

senses have dimmed and whose corporeal substance

is in decline, a challenge to the ingenuity of the

healer charged with ameliorating such symptoms

a felicitous but temporary patch on the wound

of mortality concentrated on the elderly for the

young cannot conceive of themselves as frail and

failing, minds simply oblivious to life's cycle.