Narrow Escape
A disaster avoided by a hair’s breadth!
Not so very long ago
I gasped for air,
Oppressed and fearing danger,
As if ridden by a nightmare.
The oxygen supply cut off,
Breathing stopped,
A humiliating rasp in the windpipe.
By a hair’s breadth
I did not die from it.
My life continues to this day.
Thus I narrowly escaped death
And breathe again with relief—
For recovery has set in.
By a hair’s breadth.
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Alle auteurs
- Olivier Lichtenberg
- A Magical-Realist Portrait of Erembodegem, a Belgian village
- ADHD
- Advice from the doctor
- African poetry
- AIDS activism and gay emancipation
- Bibliography of Chris
- Bibliography of Olivier
- Bibliography of Patrick
- Biography of Chris
- Biography of Olivier
- Biography of Patrick
- Blackout poetry
- Blogs
- Chris' Stage
- Columns
- Covid
- Dirk van Babylon Newsletter
- Double calling
- Essays
- Fragile light
- Hanna's Mind Wanderings
- Incapacity for work
- Late Pasquino's
- Lectures
- LEIF doctor
- Liechtensteiner
- Medical newsletter
- Memoirs of a general practitioner
- Miguel Molinos
- Moctines
- Musings
- Myriad
- Patrick's Stage
- Practice in Erembodegem
- Resignation
- Short Stories
- Sleep problems
- Sonnets
- Sprawl Month
- Substance abuse and addiction
- Synchronicities
- Travel
- Vi to
- Vögels
- Voluntary euthanasia
- Weltschmerz
- Wormwood or The dose makes the poison
Over de auteur
The Pasquino is a well-known antique statue in the area of Piazza Navona in Rome that at some point began to "speak.
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