The Truth About Family

Day 24

PAD: “The truth about __________”

Theme: Alzheimer’s/dementia

Image: Harmony
Manipulated Digital Painting by Elizabeth Crawford

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Deep eyes

Written for PAD Day 23 Write a Deep Poem

Geode Manipulated Photograph
Elizabeth Crawford

Gather Me

 

“Gather me”

Gather me while still a child
under your wing and keep me

strong enough to carve your life
into glass stones

gathered.

Gather me while still supple
enough to break

forth and spill
forth unto the wind

gathered

by you.

 

PAD Day 20
Two Fer Tuesday: Gather/Let Go
Theme: Alzheimer’s/Dementia

Image: Carved In Stone
Manipulated Photograph
by
Elizabeth Crawford

Somewhere

Somewhere 

We go around time
somewhere
between your birth
and now or
what you think is now

We go around time
somewhere
between why’s and if’s
to just being
somewhere

inside
our iris blue hearts,

revolving
somewhere in time.

 

Written in response to PAD prompt “Wheels”
Photo: 1sojournal
Theme: Alzheimer’s/dementia

Shadow Creature

“Shadow creatures”

Petite
serene
flights of memory

years
ago
untouched

now chewed into
rocky edges.

WordSmith Studio Weekly Photo Prompt: Shadows

Theme: Alheimer’s/dementia

How to Age

         “How to age”

I start my car and see her,

she is standing in the doorway waving

         like a child waves

when parents leave for a weekend away.

I know her wave is saying don’t leave me

alone with him. He has hurried inside the

house. I spied him piling some of her

stuff into my trunk, the stuff he doesn’t want,

         his way of saying

I’m sending her with you and

I don’t want you to leave me alone with her.

I back down the driveway

        feeling so very old

              so very very old.

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