Going Going COme Back

Going… Going… Come Back

You are leaving me.

I’ve known it for awhile

But closed my eyes to reality.

But why?

What did I do

To deserve such abandonment?

Don’t you remember all the good times

We stored away?

Like Glacier Park

When we swam in our tent

After three days of rain.

Or wandering the rocky coast of Maine

When I pointed to the surging ocean

To declare: “My love is as vast

And deep as the sea.”

With rolling eyes

A snickering laugh

You hit my arm

“You are SO full of it!”

What about the children

So devastated they rarely call

I was there when your water broke

In the cashier’s line at J.C. Penny.

We drove through the snow

While you counted contractions.

We danced in the moonlight

At our daughter’s wedding.

Can’t you stay a little longer?

Must you run blissfully

Into his clutches

So unaware how he steals

And distorts your most precious memories?

With every breath I take

A curse upon the name

Of the one who drew you away

Only to destroy you in the end.

You are leaving me

But I love you ever more

And will forever fight

To keep you by my side

And out of the clutches

Of that bastard…

Alzheimer’s.