There are many reasons one can feel in the way
For example if disabled and struggling each day
Watching your wife struggling with her chores
Bathing the children and changing their clothes
Laid up on the couch
sometimes in bed
Exhausted from nothing
And nothing is said
Sometimes a silence
that makes me feel sad
sometimes a comment
“The kids have no Dad”
I asked for no illness that no one can see
I wish I could live life and go back to me
If all of the years I’ve been feeling unwell
Through the chemo and death and close shaves with hell
I thought you were strong and would not crush my heart
My life’s torn apart
It’s right what they say
No one can really be sure
When they say we can face this
The life they’ll endure.