Dx

As evening settles over you
the weight of the day
is sloughed off like a skin
that needs to be shed
for life to continue.
Today the fear of not
knowing was replaced
by the momentary joy
of learning the battle
has come to a draw.
In this war each loss
carries the threat
of final defeat, the one
prognosis she most fears
for that is the terminal
she dreads visiting.
Today there was a reprieve
and she will seize it
and march forward
into an unknowable future,
doubt following her
like a shadow.