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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Author Notes
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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