Prognosis
Say six months,
Your perspective
Sure to narrow,
Love, work, art,
The natural world,
A stopped world,
Say world peace
Begins within.
Filling in the Blanks
Said the doctor,
Metastasis, with a frown.
No time for global warming,
No time for the Middle East,
Though I still care,
They belong to the future,
I have my work
And those I love,
And I have gratitude
For having lived and thought
On a beautiful planet.
I am now face to face with dying,
but i am not finished with living.
—Oliver Sacks, 1933-2015
