Twilight

No matter what you think or feel

you cannot hold back the inexorable onslaught

of my display of power

my mastery over your body

I invade and destroy what in you is healthy

I start out slow then explode

in a profusion of crazed, abnormal cells

Gleefully I multiply

Mutating in malignant forms and tumours

Screwing up your body systems

Causing pain and malfunction

in the wake of my deadly destruction

You will moan and mourn

Shriek and suffer

Cry and eventually die

I am your worst nightmare.

Conquer my body you may,

Giving me grief and existential angst.

Costing me a small fortune,

Creating chaos in my household

You may even decide the time I depart.

But you cannot control how I choose to leave,

Or what I do with my time remaining.

I can transform my suffering

Into something that redeems humanity,

My pain has the potential to save souls,

My despair the ability to give birth

To an experience of God's love

and the knowledge that my life

does not end even as my body decays.

For what awaits is infinitely better...

A sumptuous banquet in the house of the Lord

For eternity_