Adjuvant

Many things are such, side by side you could say Two things in one space at the same time Aiming for the same end, perhaps couples are so One with the other, as one to face the world Two views, abilities a compliment of pair When they explained it is how I saw this word Not as treatment but as challenge, two against the one But I was wrong, it is mine she said to fight and win You can have a part in this play but not a lead said she So there it was, my role defined, no longer did the word have sense Until we heard the reason, the reason of this word, then sense it made A two fold thing, to fight the spread, to fix the ill And so we saw this word applied, watched day by day And slowly died, away the hopes, away the win A losing fight, there was no challenge to this end Soon came the loss, sallow, aged, one thing seeming To undo the other, to reverse the good And from the side I sat and saw, no leading part Nor side by side, fight had left, so instead We paired in an enclosed space, the word was wrong They should have used indignity 2013