When we wed I was your true love,

You’d told me when they released the dove.

But now you look me in the eye,

I can see your memory flicker by.

The last ten years were an extra gain,

But still I feel the constant pain.

Alzheimer’s has taken you from me,

What we once had will never be.

For fifty years we’ve been cohorts,

And now we sleep with restless thoughts.

I think of all the things lost and won,

Of all the things we both have done.

When we wake with the bright new day,

I pray your pain will have gone away.

I lay here beside my man,

On this trip I firmly hold his hand.

~~Lynda Wood~~