Monday, July 13, 2009

Dementia

A mind that is coming and going…what a terrible thing to live through. Not only for the person with the disease, but the people around it. Not knowing what point of your life you’re in, whether it be an adult, a child, a teenager, a baby. This horrible disease completely overtakes your life and doesn’t allow you to be the “normal” person God intended you to be. I have someone in my family with dementia. When I go visit her in the hospital she lays there in a vegetative state. Unaware of what’s going on around her. Talking to me asking me to go and play because she thinks we're both kids- She's 91 and I'm 27. Someone who I’ve been around my whole life…doesn’t even know me anymore. What a cruel trick our body can play on us! But, one day when all the pain is gone and you're flying above clouds of white...we'll play...oh yes we will!!!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Anyone lived in a pretty how town...

anyone lived in a pretty how town

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.

Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
with by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

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