VERDICT
The spitting image of a look alike
waiting for the inevitable
---------end.
The white coats flustered their verdict
---------tumor
---------bad one.
How long doctor, can I hold him?
Stupid question and I know it,
so
---------unpredictable
so
---------inevitable
waiting like all my look-alikes for the
---------end
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Author:
Marjon van Bruggen (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This is the last poem of a series of 21. Since I know that my husband suffers from Alzheimer disease I wrote twenty poems to cope with this knowledge. It also helped me to get my changing position from wife to caretaker clear in my mind. VERDICT is the last one, written 20 of June 2017 when I heard that on top of it all a not curable cancer tumor is found, leading to a certain death. I decided I want the whole series published to (if possible) help other people in similar circumstances. Little by little I'll show them all. A poet friend advised me to post here.
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This is stark, as is often befitting dire news. Thank you for sharing your heart and your pen here. I'm more than sorry for the road you and your husband are walking. You have written volumes in short verses.
Thank you Heather.
WELCOME TO MPS ~ MARJON ~ You have chosen a very empathetic site ! As you are aware writing poetry is very cathartic and can bring some release and relief in the very difficult circumstances you describe. The poem you have shared is very elegantly penned and its content is apposite to the circumstance. I am not married yet but I have faced similar situations with close friends and it is never easy to witness. Because I am a performance Poet I am often asked to compose a eulogy for a funeral. I find it difficult ~ but cathartic ~ and I am pleased that others have been strengthened by my words. Thanks for caring ~ sharing and being so honest & brave. Every Blessing ~ thinking of you ~ Yours BRIAN ~ UK .
Dear Brian,
empathetic indeed! And so very warm and endearing. It really helps. Thank you.
Very emotive write. That very first line "The spitting image of a look alike" resounds very much with me as my wife is suffering from dementia and she is not the person that I and the kids knew a while ago. I do hope that you are coping well and taking care of yourself as well.
Thank you very much Goldfinch60.
Courage to write on such cruel news and in such terse depth will no doubt aid those yet to face the same stony road so publishing your twenty reflections on coping will surely help others in similar circumstance - - God bless you efforts in this Marjon.
Thank you very much, Fay. It means a lot to see that my poem evokes compassion and understanding.
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