Healing refuses to be lost to death, I say, healing will come.

Healing refuses to be lost to death, I say, healing will come.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

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What turned up: Healing Will Come: Elegy after Natural Disaster (Poetry, June 2022); Full poem read in indexed publisher text; direct request403. Final two lines retain I say: a poetic expression of hope after a mother searches for her children in disaster ruins, not a medical prognosis or fixed timetable.
Work: Healing Will Come: Elegy after Natural Disaster (Poetry, June 2022)
Sources checked: poetryfoundation.orgChecked using manual, 20 October 2026Healing Will Come: Elegy after Natural Disaster (Poetry, June 2022); Full poem read in indexed publisher text; direct request403. Final two lines retain I say: a poetic expression of hope after a mother searches for her children in disaster ruins, not a medical prognosis or fixed timetable.

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