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I'm Me! Can't you see?
Do not forget who I was -
Who I am!
I awoke in the womb
Then moved to a pram!
I learned how to toddle
Then stumble
Then walk
Then, as my parents found out
I learned how to talk…
And talk!
I laughed in the sunshine
Made daisy chains too
Does anyone recognise
This person in you?
In teenage years
There came the drama
As my parents tried to...
Monday 13th March 2023 6:20 pm
Awaiting Bliss
I'm no longer me, she said
Later, when clouds passed by
Her mind went with them
She discovered it, sometime later
in a jar upon a dusty shelf
In a room unfamiliar
Where Time had nibbled away
at the glistening softness
to leave a part of it missing
But she wasn't to know
It was others who relayed it
In sympathetic stares
And, enforced, Mona Lisa smiles
...Friday 21st January 2022 12:43 pm
The Withered Vine
I watch her slowly
fall from grace
Her body still
Her mind displaced
New memories
no longer stay
they simply
just
drift a w a y
Like a mist around
a mountain old
that dissipates
as the dawn unfolds
She's there in body
but sparse of mind
Sometimes it's hard
to seek, and find
The vibrant woman
she...
Wednesday 26th May 2021 6:20 pm
Her Last Dance
The fading embers of her mind
Drift away to a long-ago time
To shrouded visions of some young girl
A time of wonder, a world to unfurl
Through fields she would dance humming a tune
Losing herself amidst the sweet scent of bloom
A fragrant-filled-feast for her lungs to consume
Within the wonderful freedom of nature's playroom
And as the shimmering Sun went down
She would dance throug...
Thursday 17th September 2020 12:17 pm
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