Your brain is poisoned,
its beginning to rot.
I feel your soul slipping;
Your memory is shot.

Your illness ravishes you.
Your muscles waste.
Your eyes are sunken,
always staring into space

I will try to save you my love;
Its all I know now.
I fight every second
and I read to find out how.

Researching the best Dr's,
my around the clock care;
Nutrition, tough love and all kindness spent.
Addiction is ugly and so unfair.

Sleep is my friend,
But I have not seen her in a while.
I pick my weary head up from my pillow,
And again force a smile.

Do you know what it is doing?
Do you see me working hard?
I am still trying to save you,
But becoming more Scarred.

You star at me blankly
And I help you to walk.
As your skin hangs off bone;
So weak, you can barely talk.

And still you dont see me,
even with this effort and pain.
My body is hurting,
And my brain is no longer sane.

And as my head hits the pillow,
I'll dream a new way,
To find the strength that I need,
to start afresh the next day.