You knew time with him
Would be short
Heartbreak
Just a breath away

Yet you chose to love anyway

Opening up that
Delicate sacred place
Within your soul
Where only those
Most precious to us reside

Gave yourself to him
Even as the cancer loomed
Slowly weakening
Taking what it shouldn’t

That kind of courage
Makes you a hero in my eyes
For it is only the strongest
Who boldly go forth
In the face of adversity
And choose to love
Despite the pain