The Call

I don't know where to begin as my mind starts to roam,

I just remember that phone call on our way back home.

The doctor called to tell us, "It's cancer I'm afraid."

And all I could do was sulk though my reaction was delayed.

I was shocked and I was saddened of all that I had heard.

As my wife's life flashed before me, for a moment it was blurred.

We both had cried and prayed together as though it was pre-arranged.

Though this time it was different...now our lives had really changed.

The thought of getting cancer had sent us both a shiver.

Like waiting to get that "lucky card" relying on the "river."

But as I remembered my "Lily of the Valley", the wife of my youth,

I had to go to the Bible, to sort thru and find the truth.

The wife of noble character of Proverbs thirty-one,

Were verses that I remembered and that the battle was already won.

You see my wife is just that person...so much so to a tee.

Though I cried in my heart of loneliness. I knew the woman that she had come to be.

So from the start of this process, this sort of cancer grind,

I'll fight my heart, and soul and strength to work on being "kind."

And this I've learned up to this point, and I hope you really hear it,

Though cancer may take your mind and body, it can't take your soul and spirit.

The un-invited-end game to some, may be their demise.

But it's actually giving "US" more Wisdom. A word to the Wise.

Ramil