The Journey

I have a dear friend who has been traveling the lung cancer road with me. His is more like our dirt road with bumps and ruts and slush and mud while mine has been more of a paved road. He has made the decision to go on hospice and finish this chapter. How do we know and say enough is enough and I will live what is left? I guess I'll know when that comes and trust my medical world will help with that decision. I can count all these days as a bonus since my prognosis was 1-2 years and I am now living my fourth year since my diagnosis. 

I sent Bobby a copy of this poem that is a part of my life now and hopefully will make all decisions easier.

Somebody is dying...

And its like steps that stop...

But if it would be a new departure

For a new journey?

Someone is dying,

And its like a tree that falls...

But if it would be a seed 

Sprouting in a new soil?

Somebody is dying,

And it is like a door that is slammed...

But if it would be a path

Opening on new landscapes?

Somebody is dying,

And it's like a silence that is screaming...

But if it would help us to listen to

The fragile music of the life?

Translated from Rose Balmelle