Strange that the refrigerator doors would be padlocked.
Mother’s paranoia worsening, dementia’s grabbing grip,
Dad’s palsy clearly confining, curtailing a kind, quality of life.
Tried, married an entire life; this the crush of age and circumstance,
Now resolved to keep them from taking him away.
Determined, downright determined to save him from this, his sentence,
A new two man lift, ordered online, one frail and aged woman to use.
Tired - a barrage of cackling criticizers; problem solvers in their own estimation,
Gruiform sentinels guarding, waiting for a fish, a flash of misstep.
You think they’d really fly in and take him away?
Resolved to serve him in her own way - just let her be.
Below this dull reality that no longer tantalizes,
Under this bleary bondage, beauty is buried.
You’d fight the same way for yours; yes, way beyond the end bell too.
Gary Edward Geraci