THE END
The memory of Dad
lying on his bed
naked and vulnerable
eyes filled with dread.
Dad staring back
now standing instead
nothing happening
alone in his head.
I lay content on my bed
wondering on his doom
While inside my head
universes bloom.
The fear of being
alone at the end
age and decline
a story of pretend.
Did Dad feel the same,
alone on his bed?
Did the tunnel of light,
assuage his dread?
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I hesitated posting it though it was the second poem I wrote this week.
"Too personal," I told Linda.
"Poetry is personal," says she.
... so it is. My mother passed away here in Bend at Aspen Ridge Memory Care.
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