Foreclosure
The letter arrived in the mailbox
As icing upon the cake
While she knelt beside his headstone
Arranging the flowers she did take
It was stuck between new medical bills
That have mounted over the year
Lifesavings depleted by the cancer
That ate away at her husband dear
The house in which they raised their children
And compiled thousands of memories
Was mortgaged to pay the doctors
And has become another casualty
Banks have no compassion
Just numbers on a ledger sheet
The foreclosure letter awaits her now
To make her year tragically complete
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