The Monster Within Part 2 - Day By Day Poem by Darlene Walsh

Oh, the darkness spreads, growing day by day
Sometimes a nap where never a nap there was
A growing lack of energy travels through the soul
Making each day a little bit less

The appetite declines, a little less day by day
The bit of pasta sits staring back at me
Prime rib used to fly off from the plate
Now each week food sits longer ignored

The insides a bit less comfortable day by day
Sleeping through the night is a memory of the past
Getting up repeatedly with innards rumbling
Making bed a more dreaded place

I know its growing uninterrupted day by day
Eating away a piece of me with each passing day
Making me less of who I used to be
How much longer will it last

After months of losing life, a bit day by day
Wishing it was all a dream that would end
There's not much left of me to keep up hope
Cancer slowly eating my life away