Dealing with Cancer of a Loved One

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The words came like a knife to my heart.

It was evening

and we had just gotten in bed.

The words were whispered in the smallest of voice from you.

We were lying side by side

with my arm around your waist.

This was always in all these years

in how I went to sleep with you.

The words were

“I don’t want to leave you” in an almost sobbing voice.

Then it was your silent breathing again.

I tried to visualize my life without you.

All that my mind gave back was a blank screen.

Lord did I not pray enough for You to watch over her?

After all these years

the darkness of cancer returns to my bride.

And what of the cure?

Killing her body in order to make it better?

We build Atomic bombs to kill our enemies.

Accomplished the impossible

in placing mankind on the moon

and returning them.

Yet we must see those we love

be placed at the edge of death

in order to get better.

I am angry with the greed

and the ignorance of man.

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