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(Message started by: BarbaraD on Sep 19^th, 2006, 8:27am)

Title: Too good not to share
Post by BarbaraD on Sep 19^th, 2006, 8:27am

This was too good not to share. Hugs BD

Crabby Old Woman:

What are you thinking ............ When you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman .............. Not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, .............. With faraway eyes?

Who dribbles her food ............. And makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice, .. "I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice ........ The things that you do,
And forever is losing .............. A stocking or shoe?

Who, resisting or not, .............. Lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding, ...... The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking? .... Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse, .....You're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am ............... As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, ........ As I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten ..........With a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters ............... Who love one another.

A young girl of sixteen .............With wings on her feet
Dreaming that soon now .......... A lover she'll meet.
A bride s oon at twenty, ............ My heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows .......... That I promised to keep.

At twenty-five now, ............... I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide ............ And a secure happy home.
A woman of thirty, ................. My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other .............. With ties that should last.

At forty, my young sons .......... Have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me .......... To see I don't mourn
At fifty once more, .................. Babies play round my knee,
Again we know children, ........ My loved one and me.

Dark da ys are upon me, ........... My husband is dead,
I look at the future, ............. I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing ....Young of their own,
And I think of the years ........... And the love that I've known.

I'm now an old woman............... And nature is cruel;
Tis jest to make old age ....... Look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles, .............. Grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone ............... Where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass ....... A young girl still dwells,
And now and again, ............... My battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, ................ I remember the pain,
And I'm loving and living ........ Life over again.

I think of the years ............... All too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact ........ That nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people, ..... Open and see,
Not a crabby old woman; ........... Look closer....see, ME!!

~Author: Anonymous~

Title: Re: Too good not to share
Post by TxBasslady on Sep 19^th, 2006, 11:39am

That's neat, Barb ;;D...

Jean

Title: Re: Too good not to share
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Sep 19^th, 2006, 9:10pm

Barb - that's just such a good one that I've sent it on to my daughter, Teddi, who works in a nursing home. She chose to work on a locked floor as her patients have varying stages of dementia. She loves workng with these special seniors and often gets ticked off with some of her co-workers who don't have a lot of patience with the poor dears.

I expect she'll have this framed and hung in the nursing station.

It also pretty much describes where my own Mom is right now so I too will be making a copy of this.

Hugs
Carol