Meek and yet indifferent poise
The exterminator came today
Though thought, she was so welcomed in
My mind, in disarray
The morning came, rested, awake
I found my bride in tears
What became of glorious praise
Confusion, reared so clear
The limp, the sag, the pitiful jaunt
The text sent to relieve
What’s this, who said, that can’t be true
Intransigent and deceived
And hence, the plea, we haven’t much time
The glory road has passed
Then rage set in, another way
Before the die is cast
The calls, despair, the frightening truths
Too dastardly to conceive
That hope had lost its foot, assured
That truth, must be believed
We heard the roar in stark defiance
The slayer caught off guard
It came and went, the room stood still
The chilling future, hard
Insanity took its rightful place
Our princess on the ground
We huddled close to hear the “voice”
Submission, was to be found
The tears, fought back, to show my strength
As needles pierced her skin
Her life in ebb in front of me
My wife, defeated, chagrined
The shave to the skin, poke after poke
My peace turned from ire to rage
Dutifully done, the poison begun
As life turned its next wicked page
Lifeless, she lay, what was priceless, undone
As her mother left sobbing, despaired
And onto the stretcher, was carried along
As if no one mattered or cared
Moment by moment, we had said our goodbyes
To late to turn back the clock
So, off in the “hearse,” the slayer took off
I felt as though time had stopped
The planning was done as lessons were learned
The gift from our God clearly seen
That what had been priceless for ten solid years
Our precious, our Abi, our queen
Death be a mystery, we cannot evade
And suddenly left in bereft
She came and she went, no time left to go
Like someone committed a theft
And all that was left with the cries in the night
Was the promise of God that He’s near
He’ll provide and protect, when life closes in
In Christ, we’ve got nothing to fear
So often, the story, she passed, get another
It’s easy if you don’t just believe
That she was perfection, so blessed by our Savior
Substitution, the mind can’t conceive
We wonder, in glory, if ever shall meet
We’ll leave it to God to display
While here, for a moment, the love that she gave us
Reminded on every Wednesday