Brenda ( who reads )
she"s lost,
lost in the caverns of her brain,
the dementia turns her insane,
no escape she must remain..
a prisoner..
All day she gives no leave..
all day tugging my sleeve..
" I want to go home"..please..
she,s such a fiddler..
I bring her a bag with little
cardboard boxes..
and her mind is thrown
into a different context..
She stops whimpering..
She starts thinking..
and I look and wonder
what I've done..
She's off my back..
on a different track..
Sweet old lady ..
could easily be my mum..
( sometimes it's hard to like patients when you spend hours caring, one old lady with Advanced Dementia spends all day asking to go home, I saw her reading when I accompanied her to hospital, and being ingenious by using her handbag to lasso object out of reach, which has endeared me to her, ..I was sat working at the computer and she crept up, kissed my cheek and said " that's from your mama, do you miss her..?"...xx I'm enchanted by this old soul now...
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Xx Barry, it gets to me, people think you're hard, it's a job I know...so many old people in personal torture in their heads, then theres the happy care free ones who bumble along... I'm safe, so safe I've become complacent now..thanks..Β
Pauline, your verse brought a tear to my eye! I was a personal caregiver for 30 years and I miss that part of my life greatly. Well written piece pinned for perfection
Essay you Poetess, it seems how ever old we getΒ we can still learn somethingΒ new ( meaning me)
...thanks
Aw Pauline, I can so relate to the words you have written and the emotions conveyed...I work with dementia also and it can be exhausting but there are wonderful moments too and yes, they are just normal people with pasts and histories and stories. They have just lost their way...hugs ?
Hugs Marian....I get so tired and bogged down, particularly during this pandemic..bless them....they dont know..xx