Bad news they told his wife

A brain tumor checks life

You will not live to see

Your daughter get degree

I will not meet gravestone

Until my daughter's grown

I'll do what I must do

To see this challenge through

And so she fought each day

To keep her death at bay

Long hours spent in bed

Pain racking inside head

With husband at her side

She sailed life's bumpy ride

He shushed her fears at night

That he shared her life's blight

He often felt alone

Listening to her groans

Resolved to stay the course

And share her tour de force

And as the years pass by

She dried her daughter's eyes

She helped her daughter grow

Discover life's rainbows

On graduation day

The daughter walked runway

Her mother yelled Hooray

Her father slowly swayed

Wife reached her finish line

Forked road a future sign

In six months wife was gone

He felt his loss each dawn

Six months after his loss

He made the sign of cross

New wife kneeled by his side

Both their grins were wide

Then cruel rumors began

Through neighborhood they ran

Had there been an affair

Before the death bed prayer?

New wife had been neighbor

Helped family with labor

Brows rise with verbal dance

Had there been a romance?

One woman shook her head

And stopped the rumor spread

Folks how do you not know

Dead wife wanted it so?

A gift the sick wife gave?

To husband who was brave

No sacrifice for me

Share love and honor me

Do not assume you know

How couple's love did flow

He stood right by wife's side

And helped her through life's ride

The sick wife was my friend

He loved her to the end

I saw this with my eyes

No need to crucify

So stop your guessing game

There is no one to blame

This man has so much love

It fits him like a glove

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