HURTING AND LIVING WITH DEMENTIA ........................
I`m HURTING, HURTING, cant you see?
Have you any idea what its like to be me?
Living with dementia every day,
Smiling outward, yet inward dismay,
Horrendous nights with lack of sleep,
In my every atom dementia creeps,
Causing chaos, wherever it goes,
When will it stop? Nobody knows,
Behind these eyes hides so much pain,
Smiling outward, yet fear engrained
Fear of the future, and today
If fact hour by hour of what might lay,
Ahead of me, as time goes by,
You cannot hear my inward cry`s
I hide so much, it's just the way I am
Please understand if you can,
So many people walk on by,
Without a thought, it makes me cry,
But I`m going nowhere, I`m still here,
Even though I shed many silent tears,
I will fight this illness every step of the way,
And pray dementia never comes your way
Norrms Diagnosed with dementia 10 years ago (Sometimes its tough going)