It's Been Confirmed!

It’s Been Confirmed!

We now know the name,

Of the enemy we face,

An enemy we will fight,

Knowing we cannot win.

 

We try to take heart

In that we have each other,

At least, for the moment,

But knowing the day will come,

 

When it will slice  

Through what we have,

And part us, not with sweet sorrow

But with a thousand tiny incisions,

 

To leave us bruised and bleeding

As it triumphs over what we had,

And I watch and see it steal from you

As you succumb to its demands.

 

I lose you slowly by degrees,

Though sometimes it seems

As though your eyes kiss me,

But your lips stay resolute.

 

And I squeeze your hand

But there is no response.

No flicker of recognition,

No smile of joy can be seen

 

Fleeting across your

Dear expressionless face.

I still love but you no longer can,

Because you inhabit a different orb

 

The home chosen I hope will be your refuge

And that you will know no fear.

You no longer recognize me

And I know the time is

 

Fast approaching

When I will have to make

That most terrible decision.

To hand you over to those

 

Who are trained to deal with

This newly acquired aggression.

Aggression that makes me fearful

Of being in the house alone with you.

 

We have come this far together,

But now you will leave my world,

And I cannot enter yours.

So all that is left for me to say is

 

Go In Peace, My Lovely,

Painful though it is to say,

You have my blessing to

Leave your awful world behind,

 

Go skywards to that place

Where all lost souls are found.

I can no longer bear to see you

Frightened and confused.

 

So my hope and blessing is,

That you will soon be taken,

Early Onset Alzheimer’s,

Leaves no room for a man to exist

But the wife is left to witness its total

Annihilation of a husband once so strong.