Are you still in there mom?
I'm standing behind you
Brushing your hair
Looking in the mirror
Wondering if you're still there
I'm holding back the tears
As I stare into your vacant eyes
Every day to you I'm a lovely surprise
I can't comprehend that my
Mother has gone
Because this lady I'm styling
Is not my mom
"So how has your day been?"
"I've been to the shops and done all my jobs"
But you still have your slippers on and never left the doors
I imagine myself asking one question most days
Mom, are you still in there, but I feel too much pain
A hardened love between a mother and a daughter
This dementia disease is only growing stronger
My mother asks "where is the kids?"
I say at school to keep the peace
But at 62 I am that kid, inside my heart aches
My mother asks "where is my John?" This is her husband she's speaking of
My dad passed away last year but her memory has slowly gone
We don't speak of this, I can't hear her beautiful voice singing his song
But the tune plays in my head day after day when I say...
"There you go mom, have I done a good job?"
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Poignant... ahh sweet memories! I have them to... my first wife Linda passed away 18 years ago! We were married 42 loving years! Although happily married to my second wife Cathie, Linda STILL has a special place in my heart!!! Well written Wayne!!!
Thanks very much my poet friend ? love has no hiding place you can't tuck it away and nor would we want to, the real love is our memory of them because that's what keeps it alive, and when one is robbed of that, it's a thing shame. Thanks again jack! ☮&? poet friend! ?
*crying shame ?
Hello Wayne...
I'm sure many can relate to this...
I know someone who has dementia and he is so sweet...
It's so different when I talk to him than when other people talk to him...
His family makes it a point for him to visit when I'm there...
He doesn't go there from the assisted living too much...
I got to see him over Christmas and I was drinking a bottle of Sweet Tea...
He wanted to try it so I gave him a bottle and now he calls his wife for her to visit and he requests Sweet Tea...
She told me on the phone the other day hat I have spoiled her entire family...
My Pleasure, I said...
Beautiful write!
Thank you for sharing...
Hugs...
sparrowsong
That is so fantastic! Sparrowsong, the support there is amazing! I work with dementia residents nearly every single day, so I understand how much the appreciation would've been there, such simple gestures and daily tasks can be taken for granted and it's only in situations like this when some people notice, thanks very much for sharing your story ?
*that not hat...
Wow!! WAYNE STUBBS!!.....to surf on the waves of decency, kindness, self expression, adoration, and unconditional Love is such a difficult thing to with grace and honest forthrightness!!......you just delivered a piece of your heart here......with gorgeous purity and Godly warmth dear poet brother!!......a stunning read!!......thanx so much sharing this!!......at this point ~ there's no getting away from the fact that YOU......are a talented poet who's gifts are blossoming daily right before all of us here at COSMO!!......we are blessed to be witnesses!!.......never stop!!.....Bravo!!.......LOVE and ROCKETS!!.......T xo
Wow!!! What an amazing comment/reply you are one awesome guy Tony!!! I can't thank you enough for your honest praise of my writing! Such admiration I have for your writing too Tony! I still can't take it in that people with a talent like yourselves say that I'm talented it's overwhelming brother poet! Thanks again! ?
Oh Wayne again my eyes! The leak became a full on weap. Pure Love! your words are so wise yet so innocent in pain. I always find the words that are true to emotion are the words that really do take the reader away. I've been mooching through some of your writes High praise! ? Inspiring stuff.
?haha, Thanks very much! And very true, thank you for taking a look at some of my work, very much appreciated ?
Thanks poetessdarkly ?