Home free

Today I say goodbye to my sister, my friend,

A part of my life.

I weep for the loss, lamenting the pain

Of her great suffering.

Is there a reason? Tell me why, O Lord?

That this was her path,

Did it have to be so cruelly complicated,

Unendingly bleak?

How can a disease be so barbaric?

Leaving me dumbstruck

At its savage attack on her body.

My grief runs deep,

My horror too profound for words,

At cancer's creativity.

Today I am glad, relieved that "It is finished."

That she rests in God's arms,

Fully healed, united with our Maker,

Finally home free.

While I rejoice, my heart is funereal heavy, 

Now I begin to mourn.