The Long Goodbye

. I took another step today on that last journey I will take the one taking me to a destination where no one wants to go . Thoughts keep slipping out of my grip I can no longer concentrate like I used to I did not think it would be happening like this It's so much faster than I thought. . My Father took this journey but it took ten years for him to notice the lapses we had been seeing all that time. . The day came that he stood there looking confused and distressed he knocked on his head as if to wake it up and said stupid head- stupid head- stupid head. . Now I wonder what he kept inside for those last ten years the sudden feelings of detachment of losing touch with self the world he knew so well refusing to come to mind the inability to keep things straight in the gathering dusk . .........................as he took another step .........................on this journey of the long good-bye . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~©2018 Susan Williams