Life

Poetry is a release for me in moments
to capture whatever words are inside
my day to day life is a so difficult
in that I am the long suffering wife
of a man who was head injured left
frontal lobe it is complicated as
so little is known about the brain
and I can only speak from this place
of distorted confusing reality life
how I do it I have no idea I am so
utterly exhausted

oh my beloved you are a constant
I have spoiled you so much let you
take my every moment for so long
my only identity is I am your wife
my name is Sheila and I have been
you wife since 12th January 1991

oh what a journey a long journey
it has been since you blue eyes
stole my heart away and you said
you were head injured and I asked
if you have thoughts......maybe
we all react but I think you more
than any

you are straight from God
you are only in the moment sweet
but you are not like me at all now
you belong with the dreamers now


You wanted to be a natural doctor
when they took your life away on
that operating table you lost it
you lost the ability to decide and
yet your own inner strength gave
you the power and determination to
live to escape to the west coast
you told me the driver of the other
car spaced out for five minutes and
you were left spaced out for life
IT WAS THE DOCTOR AT THE HOSPITAL
WHO CAUSED YOUR HEAD INJURY
I met you
on the day the Gulf war started I
met you in your cabin and I fell into
you blue eyes so deeply I drowned