November 2022
Carol Tahir
akittykat_66@yahoo.com
Bio Note: I am my husband’s caretaker for now, on his journey with Dementia. It is a unique experience for both of us. This is a poem for him. We are coming up on fifty years being together. These are the thoughts he related to me. He is my fading light .

Slow Fading Light

Brain synapses no longer connect.
The sad loss of a lifetime of memories
floating slowly into a fading light.
I strain to keep them close to me.
It is all that I am.
Frustrated, scared, and angry at the loss.
They are the things that were. 
A new path with dwindling distant recall
a new souvenir of my fading light. 
My lantern, my beacon, my wife
makes a safe passageway for me.
©2022 Carol Tahir
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