Volume Five - The Terry Fox Legend

Volume Five - The Terry Fox Legend

The 'Legend of Terry Fox' was originally written, as part of the 'LOVE 2000 AD' poetry collection by W. Diane Van Zwol, in conjunction with the photograph of the 'Terry Fox Monument' in Thunder Bay, Ontario, taken by Austin Cawlishaw.


The Terry Fox Legend

April 12, 1980...hope began...
Twenty six miles per day, Terry Fox ran.
An athlete, born in Coquitlam, B.C.,
He wanted others to be cancer free.
At eighteen, he’d lost one leg in his fight;
He knew pain and suff’ring, man’s darkest night.
He started at St. John’s, in Newfoundland;
Left foot in the ocean, he took his stand.
Fifty three hundred miles, his goal, that day;
From east coast to west, a dream to relay.
Three thousand, three hundred and thirty nine...
Recurrence of cancer...end of the line.
On June 26, 1982...
The Terry Fox Monument, bronze statue,
Was dedicated, in the memory
Of this young man who fought, courageously.
Love, in its anthem, eternal refrain,
Oft’ goes that extra mile, in spite of pain.
As long as our God has more love to give,
The Terry Fox legend...destined to live.

In Memory of Terrance Stanley Fox
July 28, 1958-June 28, 1981