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Tony Norwell
Miscellaneous
With All The World A-Watching
With All The World A-Watching
(For all the casualties of the Marathon)
With all the world a-watching â how can I give up now?
So many people round me â yet Iâm all alone somehow.
For oh so long Iâve trained and run and kept myself in trim â
Thereâs oh so much at stake here â I canât give in to whim.
The start is like the ones before and so, too, is the weather -
Before I know what I am doing â Iâm going hell for leather.
I get straight into my rhythm â give it just a wee bit more â
Just so I can get my time that bit better than before.
But then this pain across my chest tries to slow me down â
It is as if a giant vice on me is tightening all around.
Itâs made me weak and short of breath â itâs shooting down my arm â
I wish that it would go away â it means to do me harm.
Now Iâm dizzy and my legs refuse to heed my brain â
And the vice is crushing all my chest âIâve never known such pain.
My memories swirl back in time to all Iâve not yet done â
They spin around the ones I love and the things Iâve never won.
They hint at times when I awoke a-tingling in my arm â
And the pain I never spoke about I knew could do me harm.
Now my legs are failing â vague faces ask of me â
If Iâm all right â but already Iâm becoming light and free.
With all the world a-watching - how can I give up now?
So many people round me â yet Iâm all alone somehow.
But something strange is happening â Iâm lighter than before â
The fight now seems so lost that Iâm not fighting anymore.
I feel that I am leaving this old body far behind â
It feels like I donât need it now and never did at anytime.
The people standing round me look shocked and sorry now â
I wish that I could tell them that itâs all alright somehow.
But all that I can do now - is watch them stand and gaze â
As they live out their time now and treasure all their days.
With all the world a-watching Iâll give up slowly now â
For all the people round me â life will still go on somehowâ¦