If I Lost My Sight

It is a short work week.
Yet I have taken the day off.
Feeling guilty?
No.

Driving my first and last husband to the doctor.
He is having trouble seeing.
I cannot fathom anything worse.
Being an artist.

If I lost my sight….
I do not want to think about it.
All of my hobbies involve sight.

I enlist it, enable it, enthuse it.
Count on it
Depend on it.
Driving him to the doctor is the least I can do.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Bauer Avatar
March 22, 2023 at 1:21 PM
well said, caren! i hope your husband is all right. my husband and i have discussed which would be worse - to lose the ability to read or to walk. we are both readers and walkers but i'd give up walking first (my husband the opposite)...
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March 22, 2023 at 5:59 PM
I hope it does not come to making any kind of choice for any of us Ilene
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