General Poetry posted January 11, 2024 Chapters:  ...146 147 -148- 149... 


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A chapter in the book Family

The Will to Live

by Treischel

The Will to Live

(Free Verse)

 

What do you do

when a loved one

has lost her

will to live?

 

Be it from the pain of life,

or from the pain of bone,

or both,

 

It leaves a visceral fear,

a void,

in the coming of the end,

unwanted,

 

but there it is.

 

 

Staring you in the face

is

a helpless realization

that a painfully long journey

is about to end.

 

Should I be happy that

the suffering

is soon

over?

 

Should I be angry that

there is

no more

fight?

 

Should I be sad that

she’ll be

gone?

 

I have no answers

but hope

 

and

answers to my prayers.




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This is a true story that happened when my wife fell and broke her pelvis in two places, then fell and cracked he head open in the TCU. Imagine wearing diapers and when they change them, they turn you to one side, then the other side while you scream in pain. Then you have to lift your hip to allow the diaper between your legs. She refused to eat or drink and was in a catatonic trance for 3 days, slapping food and drink away, when finally, she came out of it OK. I had started seeking hospice. But she deciced she wanted to live.
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