Stroke Me.

Poem - ATC

"Stroke me" he would whisper softly,

when we were alone of course, he was far too

manly to cradle in my arms in front of company.

So we sat for hours and I held him close,

We said nothing, we did nothing

We let the Love do the communicating

Flowing back and forth between us.

Forty years seemed to fly right by

rarely noticing  wrinkles or freckles come and go

meaninglessly we were still always simply him and me

Teasing at our aging playing with our family,

Whatever hurt us we got through, until the curse

Medically the irreversible worst,

Paralyzed physically the nurse came,

told me that he had lost his speech

during the stroke, that it would never return

I remember the last words he spoke,

"I Love You." 

So we sat for hours and I held him close,

We said nothing, we did nothing

We let the Love do the communicating

Flowing back and forth between us.

Frustrated, he was always a man that

would throw a tantrum if he couldn't get

what he wanted and when I didn't understand

he would flip out, scare me, I only wanted to help.

The carer came and went, I knew that he hated her

That he despised the speech therapy,

But to me the stroke was meaningless we were still

simply him and me. 

Author's Note

Challenge - Spent 40 years married then the husband had a stroke and lost their speech, paralyzed and frustrated that he can't express his thoughts properly.

Reviews

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

The speech therapy was kind of a paradox. I could imagine him doing his best to
recover at moments just to be able to tell the therapist to go away. This sentimental
work can slow things down and have us to appreciate all that we have at the moment,

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Thank you :)

[Coyote Poetry]

A beautiful and sad poem. After 40 years together. People will form a strong bond. I liked the story in the poem leading to the every good ending. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Thank you!

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome.

[Emily]

Nice wording in this one!
Well done!

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Thank you Emily :):)

[Astrid]

This is powerful and beautiful. So much emotion ~

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Cheers dear :)

[Valkyrie Warrior]

beautiful, just simply beautiful!!!!!

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Thanks you very much :)

[Valkyrie Warrior]

you are very welcome.

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So powerfully beautiful that even when the verbal communication ceased the love continued. This is an example of true love. Good write!

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

thanks very much :)

[Ariana Omnomnom]

This ended up being a lot more emotional than I thought it would get. I'm impressed, I like it.

[Tinotenda Nyevedzanai]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it