[New-Poetry] Wendy Cope's meditation on the events of 9/11

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Spared, by Wendy Cope   
Listen to Wendy Cope reading her  poem Spared   
Poet Wendy Cope's meditation on  the events of 9/11 written specially for the 
poetry anthology CD Life Lines in  aid of Oxfam.  
"That Love is all there  is, 
Is all we know of Love...  " 
Emily Dickinson 
It wasn't you, it wasn't  me, 
Up there, two thousand feet  above 
A New York street. We're safe and  free, 
A little while, to live and love,   
Imagining what might have been  - 
The phone-call from the blazing  tower, 
A last farewell on the  machine, 
While someone sleeps another  hour,  
Or worse, perhaps, to say  goodbye 
And listen to each other's  pain, 
Send helpless love across the  sky, 
Knowing we'll never meet  again, 
Or jump together, hand in  hand, 
To certain death. Spared all of  this 
For now, how well I  understand 
That love is all, is all there  is.  
Copyright remains with author -  Copyright Wendy Cope, 2006. 
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