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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jNILCzQurM&ab_channel=Mumford%26Sons-Topic

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He could see it now

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That’s a wound.

You have to treat it like a wound. 

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Stop the bleeding, first -

Intravenous drips and blood replacement -

Clean it, disinfect it,

Give it stitches,

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Then give it antibiotics

And wait for it to heal.

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And every time it weeps   

You clean it again - carefully

So as not to let it reopen,

And you do that every time it needs it.

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And when its finished healing

And the stitches have fallen out

And its no longer itching

Then you treat it for the scar tissue.

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You loosen it, and knead it,

And remind the body to keep pumping life through it,

And reiterate to the mind

That the worst is now over.

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And then, when all that is done,

When the hurt has lessened and the scar is naught

But a pale, white line …

Then you treat the soul.

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And you remind it that good things still exist:

That beauty, and joy, peace, wellbeing …

That these things aren’t myths -

That, despite, they do still exist.

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It’ll pass. Wounds heal.

But it takes time;

You have to take care of them -

Treat them for what they are - 

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You were wounded, somehow,

Something, somebody,

They hurt you

Badly …  but if you don’t treat it like an injury,

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Then I’m sorry, without the assertion

That hope in fact still exists,

Even if the wound 

Does eventually heal … 

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The symptoms will persist.

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(author’s note: I have zero medical training. This is written as allegory. )

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