Alzeimher

She avoids his stare
One revealing the truth
she can’t bear

She wants to grow old
with him
She wants to be lucid
When she grows old
With him

She wants to
Prepare Chicken Drumsticks on the table
Although he’s late for dinner
again
On Valentine’s Day

She wants to
listen
To the story
of how he performs a laparoscopy
and saves lives that day

She wants to
be there

But she won’t even
remember
His name
Who he is
Where they spent
their honeymoon
or
their twentieth Christmas

All the while
he stares at her
loving
with all of his might
this damaged good
that he wants
to grow old with.