In silence I watched as my love

faced the darkness of pain

and confusion

Of tears..of fear..as her stress

was painted on her body in broad

strokes

The sure knowledge of future hell

projected as a tremor manifested

in a already pained left arm

I suffered each moment as a helpless

spectator of her personal torment a

devil’s shadow on her silent struggling body

The truth of the moment ran cold through me..I knew what it meant to be alone in the pain; a kinship of souls facing dark and uncertainty together..yet apart

Made aware of our finite existence..In a moment of stark reality..we are forced to look at our own mortality.