Barring A Miracle Poem by Francis Duggan

For some life ends in a slow and painful way
His wife of forty years of cancer wasting away
The mother of his children and his dearest friend
Barring a miracle her life journey is near an end
So sad for him at this stage of his life
To see her suffer so his darling wife
Her chances of survival does seem rather slim
One can only feel for her as one does feel for him
Together they did have many happy years
But for one even the happiest of marriages does end in tears
Though this is going back a few decades in time
She was quite a beautiful woman in her life's prime
Sickly from chemotherapy treatment and feeling quite ill
With cancer that many of it's victims does kill.