Tuesday, January 5, 2021

I Will Never Be Ready by Kevin M. Hibshman

I watch as your body becomes painfully thin.
Your veins showing through your ashen flesh.
Food has long since lost any appeal to you.
I make sure you eat something every day.

You are mired to your favorite spot.
The sofa we made into a bed.
All of your favorite things within easy reach.
You fall into fitful sleep whenever you are able to.
Surrounded by artifacts from a world we once shared.

We have not surrendered.
We have accepted the hard facts.
Your pain has made you even more beautiful to me.
I have often asked for the impossible.
I am asking again as
I will never be ready for you to leave me.




Kevin M. Hibshman has had poems published in many journals and magazines world wide. In addition, he has edited his poetry zine, Fearless, since 1990 and is the author of sixteen chapbooks including Love Sex Death Dreams (Green Bean Press, 2000) and Incessant Shining (Alternating Current, 2011).

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