MUSIC, SONGS
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POETRY
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MUSIC
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POETRY
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POETRY OLD AGE How does she feel through all the endless days? Eighty five and in a council home. New faces all around, each one a stranger. She's frightened, feels abandoned and alone.
She really doesn't want to be a burden. She just wants to know there's someone who will care. Someone who will make the time to visit, Someone who will be sad when she's not there.
A hurried duty visit just upsets her, It saddens her to hear her family say "We'll really have to go now, we'll see you soon" She knows they just can't wait to get away.
They have their lives to lead and well she knows it. She's lived her life and theirs is still to come. But this place however good they try to make it Will never compensate for loss of family and home.
The sad truth is, while for them time flies. She just sits there, waiting, marking time until she dies. |