On the small-screen a younger hero, 
saves the dowager from distress and dereliction.

How unwedded is reality from fiction,
poor decision, unspoken requests, misunderstood, misinterpretations.

And a wasting of opportunities to be that hero, as you wasted and bed-sored, broke bones and were abhorred.

A family that cannot care, is doomed to despair.

Dear regret, there is no peace for the damned.  I know you are aware…