The gift of gait

[Jaxxi]

The Gift of Gait


I left the doctors office in a daze

His words would not compute.

Cancer soon to ravish me-

Diagnosis Absolute.

I left there floored, I was astounded

I could not wrap my head around.

This person that I've come to be,

would succumb to death and cease to be.


Utterly beside myself, my mind so ill at ease,

I looked out my bedroom window, and gazed upon the trees-

The beauty of their natural gait

made me drop down on my knees. What happened next was shocking- even I could not believe-



I sat there with my eyes shut, through the darkness did I gaze,

suddenly on a clear gold path, I approached a big pearl gate.

I pushed it open and stepped inside, my senses keen,

just mesmerized!

A THRONE before me came to life-

It was Illuminated, and it EMPATHIZED...


In stillness faintly I felt a voice,

Not audible, ;

Within-

“Dear Child you never walk alone..

Your soul will not grow dim.

Your purpose unfulfilled you see

You’ve words to write, for them to read-

Concepts the masses yet conceive.

The pen from you-

The WORD from ME...


So fret not with your news received, for I've made a decision.

Until My Will has come to pass

Your cancer is in remission.”


My eyes teared up, my mouth was dry,

No words would form,

my tongue was tied.

Pure gratitude was all I felt.

It was like my hand had been redealt.


Just then the wind- it sucked me back, through the gate I hurled,

my mind intact.

My eyes they opened, I was in my room

Quite overwhelmed-

my mind CONSUMED-


With an understanding I'd never known.

With eyes wide open, my mind was blown…

as I stood, my legs could barely stand.

I looked down,

The PEN was in my hand.