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Hospice Whispers
(A lone elderly man holds his wife's hand, for maybe the last time, and whispers. As she sleeps)
Although your beauty may fade with age
My only love
Don't you dare leave me alone
Although the shadows like midday angels may slowly appear
Creeping in
Sent from above
To take you home
Although your smiles may diminish in numbers
As our old world slumbers
Although your inner sun
May have ebbed and lost its shine
With the passing of time
Although I may not say it often enough
Although my mind may be elsewhere
I do so love you
So try to lift up your tired heart, my love, and relight your fires
Try to erase the numbness to regain the sharpness
Ignore the changes with the turn of each of life's many pages
Although you may think you've lost your inner shine
Carry this wondrous prose, just deep within that beautiful mind
A simple thought I just send
From me to you
My love
For this is not the end
Only our new beginnings
To start winning
Hold my hand
Tighter
Show me you're still mine
Surreptitiously, beyond all the grayest of skies
For I am yours forever, beyond what people might say and conspire
And here I still stand, with eyes glazed lit
Like the first day I met you
Still under your mesmerising power
Lips pursed, looking for my own loving nurse
To ignite my fires
For I breathe in your shadows
Walk in your footsteps, just craving to stop your tears
As surely as the Lord wept
May you always be mine, my divine gift
Whose Love bestows my life with so much happiness and bliss
For if you leave me now
Wilting alone, if you go home
I'll cry
And inside
You'll leave me alone to slowly wither and die
So fight my love
Fight to live
For together,
We still have so much more to share and give
(Man bows and kisses his wife's soft hands as her tired eyes slowly open)
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Copyright ©
John DuffyASY
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