My Brother

Sometimes it seems like yesterday

That you were here with me

When we shared each day together

Brother and sister, family

But then I recall the day in my memory

Twenty seven years ago

When I had to say goodbye to you

Forever let you go

I held your hand and told you I loved you

Just before you closed your eyes

That last moment we shared together

Before leukaemia stole your life

Every single day I miss you

My beautiful brother Glenn

So much I want to share with you

My very first best friend

Just to hold you tight and hug you

Tell you everything that’s new

Just to talk, or not at all

Maybe just to sit with you....

© Leanne Demers~ 17^th September, 2011

A Tireless Foe

Each day my mind wakens me

to fight another day

But my body aches, breathing hard

And this doesn’t go away

So, like a flu ravaging constantly

Pain not eased by any drug

You step up to fight this battle

With no protective armour on

Every strike on your body debilitating

But you fight with all you have

Giving up seems out of the question

Is this the strength I lack?

My mind like a beacon in the darkness

Fighting the terror I face each day

Physically, emotionally draining

This fight for life I face

When you battle each day against it,

Normality ripped from your grasp

Searching for that ‘healthy’ life

You had in the past

It breaks down your defences

When it’s just beyond your reach

Lying somewhere broken

That healthiness you seek

Today the fight seems endless

Exhausting to say the least

You wonder why you continue

To fight this inhuman beast

As it steals away the life you had

Makes you a useless human being

Having to rely on someone else

For almost every little thing

More frustrating than always being sick

Watching your dignity stolen away

All the things most people take for granted

Get harder for me each day

But I fight on regardless

I don’t know any other way....

  

© Leanne Demers ~ 1^st September, 2011