I would not have worried you
Had the telephone not rung
Liz on the line, from Lincolnshire Life
Actually what I say is not entirely true
For I had thought of you earlier
When writing of self-help books
Samuel Smiles Self Help in particular
Purchased in the Antiquarian Bookshop
One Saturday morning in St Helier
That I have ever been in need of self-help
Is self-evident from this morning’s writings
First in my Morning Words, now in my poetry
How my path then has followed paths of guidance
Even our first meeting, often thought to be happenstance
Was led to, by my thinking of my own self-help study
First to become a chartered engineer
Which turned into a search for a self-actualised man
In turn to be fuelled, or felled, by psychology, by love
I answered the phone, thinking that it might be
In response to my scan results; perhaps a date
A date for consultation, a date for operation
