In the next room, my father moans in his sleep. He may not be sleeping, as he moans.
He moans at night, like a baby, or a wounded bear-cub, with its foot caught in a trap.
He passes his misery on, as I toss and turn and finally fall myself~~while awake.
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Each day, I've tried to move forward. I've never been as low as I've been the last few days... ...I don't want to leave my bed.
** Today, I see two doctors. One is going to talk to me about my depression; the other, will examine my eyes, my heart, my bones, and, chart where Marfan's syndrome has taken me.
** Anniversaries are tough. On Sunday, it will be two years since my mother's death~~ her passing has effected our family in ways unspeakable, and ever-lasting (so it seems)....
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....and, I miss her solidity, her outspokenness. Everyone, including my father, knew where they stood, when she was in a room. She held nothing back, and, gave up, too quickly....
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....The air escaping; the breath, a fluttering of her heart~~ lifted,
and, gone.
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Now, I see the circle we've traversed. There is an opening, between these moans, this crying.
** I love the old man, in the next room... There is no changing him.