The words I love you roll off of the tongue.
They fill the mind and the heart and the life.
Life fills with love. Every day spent among
those who make everything in the world rife
with hope knowing that love is forever.
Yet the day comes when we must say goodbye,
here there is neither always nor never
Every heart will break, all lovers will cry.
Expecting forever is so human
Yet we only hold a single moment
Saying death is the end is inhuman
Love endures and hopes though the heart is rent
Cancer comes, and it brings the long goodbye
“Only a moment”, heaven will reply.