Martha My Dear Poem by sean alexander

Martha my dear, I met you when the doctors told me my life was ending, but little did I know that was the day my life truly began.

You came with medicine, bedpans, sponges, ice bags and warm clothes. But the most important thing you brang was love.

Martha my dear we were like two trains passing in the night.
Our time was brief but I was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

Martha my dear every second I’m with you I feel more and more alive, even though I grow closer and closer to death.

Martha my dear I never believed at the same time
Could I feel so much pain and yet so much pleasure
And yet so much pain.
Feel so strong and yet so weak.
Feel so High and yet so low.
Feel so free like I could fly and yet I am shackled to this bed.
Feel so much grief and… yet so much love

Martha my dear we are two lovers in a doomed world.
In a sea of abyss where time is only an illusion
But it is all we have.


So Martha my dear, do not cry because even through we all may be on different trains and we passed only briefly.
Do not cry, for I will see you again, because even though every ones train leaves at different times and goes on different tracks. There is only one stop.