Song For A Fading Buddy

©RichardBarnabé2011

Prelude: Excerpt from Schubert’s Musical Moments Number 3.

Hello my friend, my long time buddy

How I hate to be telling your story

You once full of vibrant zest

Now you can never get enough rest

You’re like ’a broken automaton

Your spirit locked in a dreadful dungeon

By that disease so sinister

Discovered by Mister Alzheimer

You’re so lost to us now

Drifting off, but somehow

With flashes of come-ons

You still do carry on

We know you’re not yet gone

Interlude: Excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Opus 50.

My soul bleeds every occasion

I see your wife’s sad emotions

As she caters with such attention

To your needs with boundless devotion

Save for a sudden research miracle

We can’t unlock your virtual shackles

Your harsh reality we can’t negate

We must accept fate’s cruel dictate

You’re so lost to us now

Drifting off, but somehow

With flashes of come-ons

You still do carry on

We will not leave you alone.