Showing posts with label dementia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dementia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

The Waiting Room

My Past experience working in residential homes I met many Alzheimers and
 dementia patients who had been sedated and my impression were they were
 just waiting to die. I hope today things are more enlightened and patients are
 encouraged to participate in life.   

The Waiting Room


You sit in your red plastic seat,
Awaiting your destiny, one we will all meet,
You cling to your chairs wooden sides,
Your knuckles clenched                                                 
But,
Only when the pain is really intense.




Your fibres hang on to your meagre frame,
When you catch sight of your own reflection,
You see how much you have changed,
The many folds of skin, the lack of hair,
You know inside you'll soon be there.




Around the rooms more chairs await,                                
For those who have lived and feel they are late,
For the place we are all going,                                                        
But,     
They have to survive in this state,                                                                              
Until it's their time to knock on heavens gate.




Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Wife Interrupted


Wife Interrupted








   As I look  into those eyes 
I wonder why ?
Time seems to stand still for you.

As I look into those eyes 
I wonder why ?
Time stole our memories from you

As I look at you 
I know why a certain lyric 
Allows your memory again to tick, 
In tune with me.  

As we talk of the past, 
You sometimes remember the cast 
Of our shared history, 
Yet the simplest of things,
Remain to you a mystery 

As I delve into your eyes  
I still see the person
I've loved all my life
No matter what you do or say.
As I look at you 
In your essence, you still remain,
My wonderful wife xxxx