Is there a more feared sentence in the modern world than 'You have Stage 4 cancer'? For poet, playwright, screenwriter and actor, Luke Icarus Simon, the experience propelled him to pen a collection of poems that express the rollercoaster of anger, grief, resignation and nostalgia for what was and what might have been. Often raw and always poignant, he uses a poet's sensibility to make sense of a life half lived, one threatened with mortality well before its time.