Sylvia Plath

 

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.

― Sylvia Plath

alone

i haven’t had a visit
i haven’t had a call
it really seems my family
doesn’t care at all

this is a special weekend
too bad that they don’t see
i’m lonely and I feel
that no one cares for me

i’m old now and I guess
i’m a bother to them all
but oh! how I am wishing
that one of them would call

i do not like the message
their silence seems to send
it comes through loud and clear:
they wish my life would end

By Lilly
alone: a heartbreaking poem by 89-year-old lilly who lives with dementia
https://myalzheimersstory.com/2019/09/08/alone-a-heartbreaking-poem-written-by-89-year-old-lilly-who-lives-with-dementia/

ia artwork by me