I want to thank the BMJ for publishing this letter and to thank all of the authors for writing it.
This is a thank you letter to l i v e d e x p e r i e n c e [in the form of a poem]:
A L O N E
Evidence cannot be based
in numbers and words
alone.
We are all “evidence”
of time experienced
uniquely.
You are unique
do not forget
that!
Science matters:
matter makes us [and made us]
Yet, it is the unsaids, the unknowns, and soon-forgottens
that alone we keep.