The teeth gnash - The body wails
Tears like white water rapids
Erodes words, the doomed rock
She is my wife for life
But she hints that she might end it
Even before her mother dies
Who is dying, brain first, body second
She is my wife for life
I gulp a glass of red wine and another
To escape it just this night
When my love is so tired from all the wailing and gnashing
The fierce currents smashing in half the remnants of speech
And they beat down on the roofs and walls of thought
Her back's half-broken from all the gravity
Her brain's like news footage of a flood carrying a house downstream
And they zoom in on a pet hamster
Running as fast as it can on its wheel
Which may as well be a hamster wheel in an Escher-like environment
Kaleidoscopic and brutal
But now she's experiencing a serenity
That can only spring from exhaustion then collapse
She does not ponder at this time ending it all, in sleep
I gulp a glass of red wine
And another to escape it just this night