The Unexpected

My Mind was extraordinarily calm when I was told

A Lucid Numbness I suppose

Listening to the words but avoiding the 'hearing'

That one word echoed hollowly in my ear...Cancer

How do you react?....I didn't...I remained calm

and so it was for days....

Until at last it dawned...and the flood gates opened..

Cancer.....

The rest was a blur (or so it seemed to me)

They cut from inside....small blades...small holes..

When I awoke...I searched for it....no, it wasn't there..

A bag was not required....and I gave thanks...

What now I wondered....is it still there?....will there be a future?

The next words I heard with my eyes....a letter....

It is gone...it is no longer there....we were successful....

I cried....

No further treatment required...

I cried...

This is all good news...

I cried and I laughed....

A second chance...a re-birth within a Life...

How can I have such extraordinary luck?

Yet, somehow I felt guilt...how many others will not survive?

Why me?.....

I now look with different eyes...feel with a different Heart...

I move forward with gratitude....the Wheel Turns...the Path awaits.