I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
“Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.”
“There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.”