Christopher Hansard:[ White coat:part 2]

the man in the white coat

was more scared than

I

of telling me

that I had a few months left

death scares those who are caught by life but do not understand why

and so I saw them both

he who was to pass on by

and he who though he thought he studied medicine

was only just learning the nature of healing

and of mortality

the two are one and the same when healing takes place

and in that excahnge

he who was passing on by

gave the young and fearful man in the white coat

a glimpse of a larger life

the wind was warm that day

and the blue sky hung like a prayer

in an atheist’s coffee cup