'Who can forget that famous image – the monochrome of total exhaustion, falling into arms outstretched?'
Roger Bannister crosses the line
Poem by Rosemary Mathew in memory of Owen Taylor, primary school teacher
by Rosemary Mathew
30th September 2022
How we cheered in childhood,
back when we, in the world,
were young; seeing that tall figure
stride, steady as a metronome, to achieve
the unachievable, and,
reaching the end, give us the hopefulness
to believe the unbelievable.
