What use are you now?

What use are you now?

Now you are gone.

You promised forever,

my only one.

You promised you’d stay

through sickness and health,

but the sickness crept up

and with quiet and stealth,

it took you away.

First just in mind

as you failed to recall

our memories, the dates

and then nothing at all.

Then came the failing

of your body once strong,

lying broken and crumbled

and after not very long,

it took you away.

So what use are you now

as I mourn and I grieve,

that wasn’t part of the deal,

you said you’d not leave.

I wonder if maybe

we should never have met,

then my heart wouldn’t ache

with no love to forget, when

it took you away -

but for the years that we spent,

for the laughter we shared,

for the children we raised,

for the way that you cared,

for the chance to have known you,

for our souls that entwined,

you will always, forever

still be part of mine,

it won’t take you.