Day 351

Bring boiled water (if you can find
water and fuel), try cleansing
the wound.  We don’t know
which of us will be alive
tomorrow.  Do what you can,
treat the injury as though
the leg, the arm, the chest
will heal, as though you knew
that rest was possible, as though
the sufferer could be cared for,
the sutures monitored, removed.
Bring whatever you can, treat
this person as though
you could be assured that nothing
else will harm him.  As though
it were an ordinary time
and you could send him 
back to his home.