It’s only now that I realize
you have sacrificed yourself
to tend her as she lay dying
your own needs sidelined.
Now as clothes seem
to be consuming your body
you’ve all but stopped eating too
meat is indigestible, tasteless
as you are being slowly poisoned
too late to make a difference.
So I’ll pad my heart once more
make it leather,
ready it for tanning
as I watch you fade
to a 4×4 black and white
snap from the past.
© Graham Sherwood 01/2019
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