Lewy Body Dementia offers just reams of tales of heartbreak. They appear as unexpectedly as if we all didn’t know where our story was heading. Every decline has been a surprise to me as if there was a plot twist I hadn’t seen coming. I can’t justify this reaction. I know what this journey ofContinue reading “Heartbreak”
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Love and grief
I wear my grief on my sleeve likeA badge on a soccer uniformI hope that the love is a secondPatch also obvious, also on mySleeve. Love and grief commingle,Intertwined, intermingled, linkedIn tears and smiles, in the joy ofHaving you still with me. I see theGlimmers of who you always were.I mourn losing all the rest.Continue reading “Love and grief”
DTA. E.T.A.
Soon, we switch the clocks. Not soon as imminently but more in the context that Christmas decorations will go up before the Thanksgiving leftovers fill our freezers. Musing over the time change is a teary event for me. Time is a touchy topic when your loved one has lost all sense of it. Also, changingContinue reading “DTA. E.T.A.”
Time is not the only
A poem So much has gone missingAs I mourn your losses andThe loss of you, the loss of Your thoughts, recollections,The loss of who you were orHow you form ideas, come To conclusions. All the lossThat is clear, and all that isAmbiguous, waiting in theWings for the big finale I amSure will tear my heartContinue reading “Time is not the only”
Loss
I went into the living room to writea poem of mourning.. about mourning about ambiguous loss and though it presented as my poems usually do with patterns of words I could not or would not write it or allow it to write itself. That sense that we have lost someone who is still alive isContinue reading “Loss”
this is our life 