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World Within, World Without
Eight years ago, death knocked at the door
How the Poem Came About:
This is a true story of a man who (as the poem states), eight years ago was given 2 months to live. Suffering from a rare kind of throat cancer, he recently was discharged after a long and complex operation. He is expected to be able to speak (for the first time in 8 years) this week; and has, in the last day or so, been given the ‘all clear’.
Eight years ago, they said he had two months to live.
Today, he walks Embankment, with his kids.
They were not ignoring the silence as they listened for birdsong
They are often right,
But they can be wrong.
We live in a multitude of worlds
Where zero is a number, the sky unfurls
Revealing an endless dominion of stars
As close as God, yet equally as far.
Eight years ago, death knocked at the door,
Today, sunlight reflects off a snow-covered floor
From where the ceiling caved in, and the walls fell apart
And the unfathomable world within,
became the limitless world without.
