The Art of Healing

up and down, refusing to follow a straight line
it moves at its own pace ignoring our thought
of a continuous line the way a road travels
from place to place with a line on a map--
you move your finger, pursue a route
until you arrive, but this path differs
you need to allow it to wander, to halt
to depart from a linear line to one that
stops short, sputters, bursts forth,
rests, steps anew, interrupts itself
and then keeps on