Eulogy
Sensitive conversations
Increased tentative answers
To a tough situation
In truth no one knows
What will come next
Not even the doctors
With their varying opinions
The choices are getting
More and more grim
Your eyes now
Rarely opening
Your answers
To our questions
no longer making sense
I’m left wondering
Is there really value
Continuing this path
Your life stuck in bed
Unable even to
move your hands
Suffering in pain
As all that makes you,
Yourself,
Slips away into the depths
Of disease and illness.
Family and loves ones
Hanging on to all the moments
Of the time you have.
Hoping there still is a chance
Loving you so completely
Not wanting to see you pass.
Yet even as I write this
I’m unsure what should be done
My love and compassion
For you, thinks maybe
you’ve been through enough
Perhaps even too much
yet that same love
doesn’t want to let go
to live on an earth
where you are no more
would forever make me feel alone
There is nothing
That can replace a mother’s love
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