she seemed ethereal and angelic
as if she were a goddess come
to the planet
he couldn’t believe his luck in
being with her
and always felt unworthy of a
woman so incredibly nice
and seemingly perfect
his heart was crushed when
at age twenty seven she
died of a fatal cancer
his mind was amazed at how
she was unaffected by her
impending death
smiling and serene all the way
through and to the end
and how she assured him
they would be together again
in a higher world as if it were true
she seemed to have some
healing powers she never
spoke of
after he was with her
for a week
his chronic depression
he had all his life
vanished
he never had anxiety again
and unlike before he met
her he always woke up happy
things he attributed to having
been with her
and that continued after
her death
thirty and also dying from
a cancer now he sees her in
dreams comforting him
and ready to welcome
him into that higher world
she spoke of when living
and he knows it is true
bob boyd