Give up or Hang on

She stayed so long! she stayed through it all.
Like a rock in a river, she let it all pass by her.
She fought like a mother saving her child.
She fought because she knew it was just another mile.

She held on to what she had, though little it was.
She gave life all that she could,
But life did throw at her more than what it should....

For every time she felt like giving up,
There was always another voice asking her to hang on, to stay.
Soon, the times she felt like giving up... increased....
But she ignored it and stayed...she chose which voice to listen too...

In a year or two, fighting tired her out...
was life meant to be about fighting your way through or living your way through?
the voices grew louder....
and decision making soon was not done by the mind but by the body...

The body grew weak, tired of what could have been done differently...
Hope and faith seemed to be moving away slowly...
And even though a fighter still tried to fight....
soon it wasn't her battle anymore.

Now it was the voices...
One louder than the other...
Give up...Hang on....
She finally gave in to both.