Thousand Tears

It's amazing how fast
Time passes us by.
Today marks eight years
And I silently cry.

I remember it all so clearly,
Your final and last days.
You barely lasted five months
And slowly slipped away.

Your fate was truly cruel,
You were so far beyond ill.
Cancer and enthsema,
Would slowly but surely.kill..

I marked each and every day,
Took every second in.
Once you fell into a coma
Your fate did so gradually begin.

I watched you suffer,
Slip in and then out.
You had fewer lucid moments,
Oblivious to what it was about.

It got to a stage
Where I just wished you would go.
Seeing you suffer so badly
Was such a massive blow.

You were given ten days
But passed away in those early hours.
I received a dreaded phone call
And bought you fifty eight flowers.

One for each year
That you were here.
But now your loss marks eight
And over a thousand tears.

06/01/2013