Wife Death Poem

Poem Losing My Dear Wife After 58 Years Together

After 58 years of marriage I lost the love of my life, my wife and best friend to Cancer in 2017. I cared for her at home with help from the MacMillen nurses to the end. I though, as do many of us, that I could cope with the loss after I was on my own, but I was so wrong. I had great support from my children and very good friends but I experienced days of darkness and total despair and I wrote this poem in those days to try to describe the loss I was feeling, and still do.
In memory of Enid. 23rd June 2017.

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Now That Your Gone

Published by Family Friend Poems September 29, 2024 with permission of the Author.

Now that you're gone and I'm alone
To face the future on my own,
I wonder how, as day by day,
I struggle hard to find a way,
To justify this life of mine,
Make sense of my remaining time,
To come to terms with loss and grief,
To reconcile and find some peace,
Now that your gone, and I'm alone,
To face the future on my own.

This house, the home we strived to make,
A haven for our old age sake,
Now filled with random memories,
Of happiness that used to be,
No voices call, just silence fills,
The spaces filled by memories,
I reach at night to one not there,
Survey by day her empty chair,
Just ghosts to wander from the past,
And hollow aching in my heart.

My family and friends all try,
To ease the pain as time goes by,
With gentle words and kindly deeds,
They strive to ease emotions needs,
They help, but nothing can replace,
The one that used to fill this space,
So I return alone, and shut the door,
Absorb the emptiness once more,
Eyes full, cheeks wet, I long to hear,
The voice of one I held so dear,
I pray for strength to try each day,
Be positive, and find a way,
Through passing days and months now flown,
Now that you're gone, and I'm alone.

ABOUT THE POET:

I started writing when I retired and attended a creative writing course.
I have completed 3 novels, ( unpublished ), and 2 non fiction. ( also unpublished ).
I left school aged 15 in 1955 with no qualifications.
I had a varied career including working as a papermaker, an HGV driver, and a soldier.
I am a widower, have 3 sons and 4...

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