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Thoughts:

As a nurse

I’ve learned

Death and sickness

have many faces

As a nurse

I’ve learned

Each has a face

I need to match

So I do

I give strength

I offer comfort

I lean into compassion

I give empathy

I give confidence

I give love

Sometimes

I give reality

I offer expectations

I teach patience

I teach tolerance

I teach kindness

Behind the faces.

I have my own face

Worrying

Wondering

Weeping

I keep the other faces.

I know

No one wants my real face

And I offer my heart

I offer my whole soul

Desperately

Trying to heal others

Trying to soothe others

I go home empty

As I drift to sleep

I can’t help but wish

I could rest forever

No one would miss me.

Just my faces.