Showing posts with label stroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stroke. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Theme Day - Ageing


He is in care.
30 years without running water.
30 years without a fridge.
He did not care.

He is in care.
He ate veggies, and nuts.
He drank urine, because Ghandi did.
He did not care.

He is in care.
He lived alone.
In a hovel, in the bush.
He did not care.

He is in care.
He wandered five days,
After the stroke seeped
Blood into his drug-addled left-hemisphere.
He could no longer understand.

He is in care.
He is reminded to wash.
He is reminded to change.
He is fed 3 times daily.
He cannot read.
He cannot follow television.
He is all but mute.
Now others care for him.

He ain't heavy,
He's my brother.


City Daily Photo bloggers hold a Theme Day on the 1st of each month.
Click here to see what other members have contributed for March 2015.