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Life and Soul of the Party

David F Williams, PhD, DSc, FREng, FLSW
Author, Scientist & Consultant

We live under one of the helicopter flight paths to a major hospital that has a transplant centre.

Life and Soul of the Party

A heart passing through the sky
Blades overhead
Unsuspecting parties below

Beneficial carnage
Begins with a wreck
A straight line starts with death
Hopefully life at the other end

Permission tenderly sought
Distraughtly given
Kidneys to Winston
Liver to Charlotte
Heart to Philly
Brain going nowhere just yet
Except for the grave

But where is the soul?
Does it go to the grave as well,
Or to the life-support hospitals?

Can a soul be divided this way?
No-one knows
It surely wasn’t consulted
Body partitioned
Soul forgotten

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, June 2014

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