The missing part of Me
Your words do not come out right,
your expressions speak a thousand.
You was suffering.
I was being selfish.
Preferring you around,
although I knew you felt helpless.
I apologise for not reaching
for the part of me that's selfless.
My vase is without flowers since you left.
It seems I had no power over your death.
I wasn't ready to have you around less,
you are the missing part of me.
Strokes took over,
followed by dementia.
The loss of your left side
then unable to remember.
I think of you daily not only during September.
I would set myself alight to put you back together.
About this poem
In Memory of G.R Whitehouse (Grandad)
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Submitted by J_M_PERRY on January 31, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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