To my wife

love poem

To my wife

 

We are getting older, dear

We are not as spritely as we were

I will make you a promise

To care for you as long as I can.

 

Well dearest my skills became insufficient

The time has come for me

To hand over to others

For them to take care of you.

 

I do love you

My skill now will be to sit by your side

To hold your hand

And give you drinks.

 

Mop your brow

Say that I do love you

Just as much

May be even more.

 

The young active girl

Will live on in my head and heart

In the morning and in the evening

I will remember you.

 

Until the day that join with you

At the ‘Innominate Tarn’

On the Buttermere Fells

Wild Rose

Oct 2025

Reviews

[LisaCarol]

Thank you for sharing this heartfelt poem. I’m so sorry for your loss.

[ETERNITY]

It's beautiful, Peter......

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

A lovely light loving poem to the wife like a farewell, but write on poet! Kudos!

Plz also read and comment my newest poem here

[redd Brick Keshner]

That is quite the road now many of us are on and have been on. Much touched.

[petec3638]

Thank you.
one that we cannot avoid
We had to fight the social services to keep her under our care >> but it was worth the effort

[redd Brick Keshner]

Everything seems to be a fight these days! Glad you prevailed. 🙏🕊️

[Chris Shaw]

She was loved to the moon and back and still is. You did all you could for her. Your words are incredibly moving and sincere Peter. Look after yourself while you grieve.

Chris

[petec3638]

We kept her with us happy in our family
It required two ambulance crew to take her out >> rode with her in the ambulance.
Then I was allowed to sit beside her

[Chris Shaw]

You were with her right to the end, so fitting. 🌹

[Chris]

This did tear me... it spoke to all the ghostlets of my forevermores. Blessed Be.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

This reminds me of my dad and how he was with my mom. And I remember a conversation we had in which he broke down because he did not feel he could take care of her anymore. He was devastated.
Intense sadness hit me here.
j.

[petec3638]

OH Jacob, I do know that feeling
There was nothing we could do I made a kiss so that she could see > them made a kiss on my finger and placed it on her lips - her eyes told me she was pleased
Our son had been holding her hand she took it away I signed no when he was going to take it back.