Radiotherapy - That lonely place
Royston 1946 (Reading)
It’s a lonely place that I go to each day
to let radiotherapy have its way.
I sit silently waiting for my call,
and then lay still, exposed before them all.
They twist and turn me like a slab of meat
and then I watch them make a hasty retreat
leaving me lying there all on my own,
waiting and watching, listening. Alone.
Then I realised that Jesus was there
as silently I breathed out my prayer,
“I will never leave you, my dear,” He said
and laid there beside me upon that bed.
About this poem
Written after my wife had completed some radiotherapy treatment every day for a month
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Submitted by roystonallen on June 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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