Sixteen sunsets in one day Can be seen from a space ship Orbiting the earth But I saw my world crack and slip away When the consultant Sat down by your bed And sketched a diagram Of your liver and pancreas When he circled round and round With his ball point pen Over the little tubes and routes Shading in the background With fast strokes Then I felt a sea change In the atmosphere As gravity sucked at our boots And a change of gear Outside the big window Where the chestnut tree Held up daylight candles On a chandelier To light the way for The lorry of death That was drawing near Up the quiet road Where people walked
Title poem from Sixteen Sunsets, CD released January 23, 2016. Words/Music: Jehane Markham/Hartley Lloyd Pack. Jehane Markham’s husband, actor Roger Lloyd Pack, died of cancer in 2014. His most famous role was Trigger in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Jehane and their son Hartley Lloyd Pack made the CD as a tribute to him. It is available from sixteensunsets.bandcamp.com/releases. Profits go to Pancreatic Cancer UK.