Cathy Best

UNTITLED

"Woe is me."
"Whatever."
declarations of "the end"?
or symptoms of our eminent demise?
seems it should be more than that,
that it shouldn't end so easily,
with no hope left.
I have been loved more than most.
I have loved with a depth few have reached.
If this is really "it",
I need to quit hoping for "one more moment".
I have to hold on to the memories,
take them away with me
before they can be rewritten
from a different perspective.
I want to keep them beautiful
so i can go forward,
knowing in my heart
that it was real for a very long time.
I can't let them go, for if they are gone,
my life will have been...
will have been what?
I can't finish that sentence.

Cathy Best is a nurse, retired to disability due to M.S. She is a mother of 4, and a grandmother of 8, who has been married 32 years to my high school sweetheart. With children grown and nursing career over, she finally has time to write down the words that come to mind.