Cancer

It eats at her
Between the lungs
Her aged body
Decaying in pain
A tumor
Of her flesh but not
Clinging to her body
Inside her skin
Furious and alien
So terrible in
It's hideous glory
Sin did not bring it
But it's evil remains
No prayer will remove it
But the slow radiation
It burns...
To think of such a thing
Not even alive but
Still killing her
From inside
She has cancer.

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