The Prayer of a Carer

The despair of a carer whose ability to cope, for another second, is hopeless.

Whose body is frozen.
Whose mind has shut down.
Whose hands hang lifeless.
Whose speech is mute.
Whose heart breaks with compassion.
Whose work lies in tatters.
Who has lost the fight.
Who is scrambling to hold on even so.
To the infinitely precious.
Knowing that what he is going through is nothing.
Not compared to the person’s screaming suffering.
Not remotely, not a dot, close.
The prayer of a carer;
love,
that will never give up on him.