I won’t assert or blurt, but I’ll record
a temporary state of well in me.
I’m currently unhurt – if I could hoard
this soundness, I would try to brew a tonic –
my cohort then could give me an award
for curing their acute and easing chronic.
But that’s impossible. Life won’t afford
the time or space for such a remedy.
For now I’ll savor vigor soft-restored.

(Magic 9)