The Healer

Some years back a young man in the making was walking one day when he witnessed something that would break him
The day before his eighteenth birthday with dark approaching, he saw a man collapse out on the street and start convulsing
A crowd gathered quickly as his faculties betrayed him
Nobody seemed to have the skill capacity to save him
His life force was draining fast as he laid on the pavement
The paramedics came but they were unable to raise him
When they placеd the white sheet on his face, thе youngster melted
‘cause never ever had he felt this powerless and helpless
He ran home traumatized, mentally distraught
‘cause due to ignorance, a life essentially was lost
He broke down with hurt and anger then started to weep
Woke up feeling differently after falling asleep
A power came over him that he couldn’t comprehend
But somehow he knew the sick would never die on him again
The clock struck midnight, he carried on confused
He stayed up ’til it was time to watch the morning news
They showed a little girl, her kidneys were failing on her
They said she wouldn’t live for long unless they found a donor
He visited the hospital and asked for the physician
Told him of his intentions while the parents were listening
He said he felt like he could heal her if allowed to test it
Her father felt disrespected but her mother was desperate
He almost got arrested for his persistence and [?]
Somehow he convinced them to let him in the room to try it
Moments from succumbing to the condition I mentioned
As he held her hand and whispered, she began to strengthen
He saw the life returning to her eyes when he was finished, the color in her skin begin to instantly replenish
The doctors were alerted and they rushed in with the quickness
Tested her for hours and found no traces of sickness
As her parents embraced and cried, the room was frantic
They noticed when they turned around to thank him, he had vanished
He realized he couldn’t take this new power for granted
He gave up everything and started traveling the planet
He started healing people, this was now known as his mantra
From pneumonia to cancer, he had shown them the answer
From young to old, if they were ill, somebody would retrieve them
And after he’d see them, the suffering would instantly leave them
People began to praise him and uphold him like a trophy
Some accused him of witchcraft and spells that were unholy
But nothing could control the urge that couldn’t stop arousing
Within the first year he had healed over a thousand
He learned he could rebuild those who were terminally ill
Any person that he encountered was permanently healed
The government discovered how he was saving civilians
It angered them because they knew that it would cost them billions
Sickness was a business, they benefit strictly from it
Sales of pharmaceuticals began to quickly plummet
Plans were set in motion to locate him then remove him
But every time they sought him out for capture, he’d elude them
Several years passed, countless lives he had been saving
Though still young, his face would show accelerated aging
He couldn’t stay in one place, authorities would trail him
And slowly now his own health remarkably was failing
He couldn’t seem to shake this constant wave of pain and illness
The study and the time it took to be explained revealed it
The reason why his energy and life was getting dim was every sickness he removed from others went inside of him
Symptoms of every condition known to man consumed him
Now it appeared as though his quest to heal the world had doomed him
He tried to fix it with his own endowed invented methods
But the technique he was blessed with somehow was ineffective
This didn’t stop his efforts, he continued on unselfishly, restoring the disabled, little babies and the elderly
The wealthy greedy people and the police start to get him now due to his poor condition, had finally caught up with him
They surrounded his home, rushed in with special devices, discovered him in a horizontal position lifeless
This man who took the sick afflicted ones and gave them help
Ironically the only person he couldn’t heal was himself
The scientists wickedly started dissecting his corpse, searching for the power but they couldn’t find the source
The people loved him now so when they found out they rebelled, rose up against the beast and sent the whole system to hell
They purified the oxygen, the water and the food
All the unnatural toxins in it were removed
The lifespan of man began to reach unplotted range
So now the work that the healer had done was not in vain