What Would I Say? Poem by Lynn W. Petty

What Would I Say?

What would I say to someone diagnosed
With cancer? I was asked by my Doctor.
What words of satisfaction would I speak?
Some pithy aphorism would I say;
Some passage from the Bible? I think not.

But, what I say must reach the inner man,
That place that goes beyond the ego depth;
Beyond the realm of consciousness. Deep down
Below where the foundation of one's
Existence lies; that power of man's healing self..

The physical and soul-mind then resolve
Themselves into a forceful strength, both work
Together now as one creative force,
Which manifests, through one's inspired thoughts;
An image of one's body in repair.

There is a strong reliance held between
The mind and the corporeal. They form
That picture of oneself completely healed.
One lives as though it were a fact, a truth.
We know, we feel, we see, therefore it is.

The builder is the mind, the physical
Becomes the outcome. The awaking
Of one's creative power is a blend;
A merging of the physical with mind;
A prompting of the Will, to heal, takes place.

One must exclude all things that constitute
The negative; all fears, all anxious thoughts,
Which interfere and block the soul-mind's act
Of creativity. They will destroy
The vision of one's fitness and good health.

One must maintain one's might to fight this scourge.
One eats to live, despite one's lack of taste.
Maintain the strength to concentrate through food,
For undernourishment is cancer's friend,
And malnutrition overwhelms one's goal.

Depending on the power of belief,
The force of one's conviction, will create
The actuality of one's good health.
The embryo of all existing things
Was but a thought and, then reality.