A Poem A Day Contest

You’re dying
The doctors say
We all knew it was coming
Some day

Now you finally quit
Because you’ve had enough of it
We burn your cigarettes
Out back in a pit

You have to fight it somehow
But it’s too late now
What fills our heart is sorrow

You lost your hair
Something that doesn’t work
Life is never once fair

I plead in tears every night
Praying for a miracles light
But the darkness clouds anything bright

I don’t want to leave your side
You’re too weak to even smile wide
And there’s so much pain I have to hide

You’re putting on a great fight
But you’re weakening in every sight
Your hugs can no longer be tight

There is no way we can prepare
Doesn’t matter how long we’re standing here
If only you had never taken that deadly dare

In my heart we’ll always have yesterday
Even if today ends it all

We’ll always have yesterday
Those games in the park
My heart bonding to your presence

So many laughs
But they stay in yesterday
They’ll never come around tomorrow

We can’t prepare
For the cost of all those times
The smiles they scratched for miles
In the past for a while

But it’s poisoned you
Hoping is fading
That you’ll get through
There is nothing more we can do
I’ll forever miss you