My friend and love, who already suffers from Diabetes, has just learned he has Colon Cancer. We desperately need your prayers!

He was the one who gave me
a special night of bliss
from behind me, he planted
on my neck, a soft and sensual kiss
his smile, crooked though it be,
was a smile I welcomed happily
I now watch him, as his sunny smile
fades with each coming day
I watch, heartbroken, as his life
 slips slowly, painfully away
skin that was once vibrantly bronze
is turning ever so dark and gray
a talkative man, now has nothing good to say
We don't speak of it, how fast time is going
we shy away from talk of that coming day

Winters are especially hard for him
he fights with what little energy has
but the sparkle in his eyes is growing dim
the ever present question, plays upon his
trembling lips as he smiles a shuddering sigh
with so much still to do,  so much yet to give
why, baby, why? 
Fear sets in, of the knowledge
that we'll have to part, for soon, he will die
another page in my book to tears,
and life's painful souvenirs
but we will take one a day at a time
and try to face the facts with a grain of salt
and a measure of sugar, to ease the hollow
place filling our hearts, and the bitter pill
we both must swallow.

Hope is always here, as a tender comfort
and God's promise of a release from Death's
grip, a promise that one day soon,
"death will be no more,  nor pain or suffering,
or outcry, the former things will pass away!"
So, we wait and we pray,
for we have this promise that
we'll see each other again some day!