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Tom's poem for Mum

It seemed I had lost you for a while
watched you hold a strangers hand
that was mine
searching for a spark
in dementia's darkness

Now somehow, i have you back
free from pain
happy and safe
smiling
in the silver light

Back in my memory, my minds eye
in every Robin's song
in the sun on seagulls wings
and the scent of freesias
I have you back

Until, one day
you will hold me again
safe, like a child
forever smiling
in the silver light

This was written by my friend, Tom May.

My Mum had just died, I think its wonderful and it helped me cope at the time.

crowncottage

@crowncottage

Granny enjoying new technology.

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Comments & Feedback (27)

@DontEatMyCookies thank you for the two reposts 😊

@DontEatMyCookies Anytime!☺ i live'em 😊

@crowncottage i ment not myself !

@crowncottage it's beautiful 😘😘

Touching 😓

@mummy1111 @glensaggs thank you, I am proud to share it, she was lovely and I miss her.

Touching, Bravo!

@Munford thanks!

It's beautiful tell Tom its beautiful

@lonelynutmeg98 I will, he will be pleased, thanks!

@MWBennett @tetti2 this is the one I mentioned, I hope you like it! ☺

@crowncottage it's lovely :)

@MWBennett I'm glad you think so. One fingers crossed we don't go the same way!

That shouldn't say one, it should say now!

@crowncottage beautiful x hard read but so relating to it 💛

@tetti2 the only positive aspect, if there is one, is that it makes bereavement a bit easier! 😿

@MrsS thanks for the repost! ☺

@crowncottage Pleasure. It's lovely 😢😘

@crowncottage I can understand that for sure, I think it will b a little easier once she accepts its happening. Thanks for your words of support xx

@tetti2 Yes it will as I believe there is medication which slows the effects down and the slower you can make them the better! 🙍

@yikici I hope you like it! 😽

This is beautiful, it reminds me of how my gran was like -childlike in demeanour. Thank you for tagging me into this. 💐💗✨

@yikici thank you. I looked after my Mum whilst she had Altzheimers, it was very hard and the hardest thing was that, for the last few months, she kept repeating 'kill me'. I tell myself that she didn't realise what the words meant but, as you know, there are times of lucidity and she hated how she was. It's very hard! 😿 thanks for reposting for me 😽

@crowncottage oh that must have been awfully hard to take -especially when she knew and possibly didn't want you to put through with all you were already doing. There were times my gran just would not eat -locked her jaw shut, spat the food out, those moments were excruciating -cause all you ever want is for them to be healthy and still living. 😔

@yikici yes, my Mum did that too and I think it's what hastened her end. She fell and broke her hip so was taken to hospital. She was very unhappy and stopped eating, the nurses didn't have time to spend encouraging her. I wasn't sorry when she died as she was so unhappy, but I was very sad. I still miss her and it's eight years now! 😿

Oh that's so sad. 😔My gran eventually just stopped eating and slept continuously, my cousins have her serum to nourish her; but within 1-2 weeks she said goodbye to the world. I wasn't able to be there in the last weeks as I had come back to the uk. That's why I said she knowingly set me free. Life always teaches us something's.

@yikici that's so true! 👼

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