DISASTER - Blogtober 2020

Disaster

Youthful bodies we made our wedding vows

Summertime romance turned to way of life

Lovemaking more than heaven would allow

Unlike my parents a stranger to strife

Lust in abundance and ardor run rife

Wet glistening bride river in Cognac

Deepest yearnings all fulfilled in my wife 

Memory I'd trade it all to go back

The diagnosis stopped me in my tracks

Your mind is gone where's the woman I knew

Disease ravaged you happiness hijacked

Every action each attempt misconstrued

Angry scar fist-sized hole in the plaster

Write what you know and I know disaster

--Shenandoah Lynd

(a Spenserian sonnet)