Hospital visits.

Hospital visits.

It gets easier to worry,

More tiring to wait.

Every day

Holding hands

Helpless and hoping.

Harder to leave

Painful to stay.

With every passing year

Coping wears the beauty

Of living away.

Painting lives

With impressions of tragedy.

Bleeding hearts

Splashed and torn

The purity of tender souls

Abused by chance.

It renders me,

Releases you.

Suffering is personal,

Bearing a cost

Too rich for some.

The struggle to share

Tainting every sorrow

With the bitterness

Of the unheard truth,

Of the unsaid.

Goodbye

A more difficult word

Than hello.

The expectation

Almost stops my heart

Each time they say no.

You stay and I go

Another piece is lost

To the crumbling.

Disappointment

Diminishing the days.

Darkening the light,

Bringing the meaning

Of life

Into disrepute.