A poem

1. When you're alone with nobody to share,
   It`s so easy to assume there is no one to care.
   These long dark nights they drag on and on,
   these are the times you really need some one to share.
2. ...
3. Someone to share those feelings of fear and dread,
   those horrid dark thoughts going round in your head.
   you yearn the power of the comforting touch,
   those soothing few words than can mean so much.
4. You recall those days of ambitions and power
   that huge salary, foreign holidays and status,
   the happy family, the dreams and wishes for your kids
   Now those dreams wash away like soap suds in the shower.
5. Away they run go those ambitions and dreams,
   an endless trickle of hope, disappearing down the drain,
   Parkinson`s you son of a bitch, you deprived me of this,
   now pills replace those dreams and ambitions,
   and dependence and despondence alongside the pain.
6. The glimmer of hope that some day that cure will come
   a magical pill that may reverse the damage and hurt.
   We live in hope of that elusive pain free dawn,
   to ditch the pills and fear in place of happiness and fun.
7. So I have made it to dawn and I`ve taken the pills
   I have logged into our group and said a cheerful good morning
   We are an elite community of strength and hope
   we laugh, we joke, we share good times and bad,
8. You know what? you guys give me that strength, that hope,
   the determination to keep going towards that elusive cure.
   It may not be in our lifetime but we will have left our mark.
   I just know that being among you - I CAN COPE!!
9. TJB 18/03/17 (c)