Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit - Life!
Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickenson (Franklin, ed.)
156
A deep little poem applicable to a million human situations. Right now, for me, I think of it in terms of my oh so well-intentioned attempts to help/fix others.
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