Today is now that sad day in my life,
Five years ago today I lost my wife,
Taken from me after so many years,
That when she passed I shed so many tears.
Forty wonderful years of married bliss,
Why was she taken from me just like this,
Dementia came to her life and took her,
So that at her end she just did not stir.
I sat by her bed as she took her last breath,
Strangely a release came to us from death,
As she passed into heavens fine abode,
And her star above down on me she showed.
She still looks down on me with pleasure shown,
So pleased for me as I am not alone.