Lost Soldier for the Cause

The pain is too much

I’ve lost all feeling

The disease is eating

Away at my insides

It’s greedy fingers rip away

At me from deep within

There is no cure

I’ve lost all hope

Sunny days

Filled with laughter

Are gone forever

Never to return

The sky is dark

Like my soul

I’m am cold;

Chilled from inside

To far gone to save

Lost to the world

I have known

My muse for life

Has abandoned me

I look at the window

By my bedside

Beside the wilting flowers

I see a colorful butterfly

Bright against the gloomy background

That is my life,

That vision of beauty

That vision of hope

Was the last I would see

The parasite has won

The war was waged

Evil has triumphed

One of the soldiers

That lay dead for the cause

Is me