In a Moment's Clarity
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Aug. 16, 2011
For the Contest of Constance La France ~ A Rambling Poet ~
"I Fancy Another Sad Poem"
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My
stepdad,
stricken with
a terrible
disease, suffered for
over a decade as
his mind slowly unraveled.
Bits and pieces of it vanished.
He had to be removed from the house
in which he'd helped Mom raise all of us kids.
At the rest home, seeped in dementia and
confused by a recent surgery
whose aim he could not comprehend,
he cried out helplessly, but
seeing our mom, he took
her hand and gently
whispered, "You're the
one I've been
thinking
of."
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2011
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