Hit Play and Repeat

Hit Play and Repeat or Twinkle help me pick a title

Tough skin is not the answer. A hard life doesn't equate a hard heart. So on bad days put your memory on repeat and replay; brownies baking, wash on a line, a new dress made just in time, sleepless nights waiting up for you, bended knee lifting up a holy prayer, late night snacks for a broken heart, holding hands for a nature walk.

 

 

So what if she cannot remember your name. Don't be fickle over such a little thing. She recognizes your eyes and that bright childlike smile. So twinkle a bit and light up her day. She's the reason you can tie your shoes this fine day. Such a simple thing that now for her you can do.

 

Don't tell me her life is without cause for even now she's teaching you about love. So when your tears start building and your heart bends till you think it will break put your memory on repeat and hit play.

Reviews

[Mark]

My grandmother had Alzheimer's. I was too young at the time to realize what her big vacant smile bode for the future, or how badly the adults around me were feeling. My sincerest sorrow to you, sister-friend; there can be nothing crueller or more painful than watching a cherished parent vanish before your eyes, while knowing that you have long ago vanished from hers. Read "The End Of The Page", my eulogy to her, for a small breath of hope.

[dovetailer]

I just posted a poem I'd like you to read...entitled "Here and Gone...Again" It fits your sentiments very nicely...although perhaps not as eloquent as yours...

[dovetailer]

What a lovely piece of advice...we really should savor life...every day...you can never predict when the clouds come...We always behave as if we'll see trouble coming and be able to adjust in time...brace ourselves...
but as often as not, it creeps up unawares and we find ourselves in a bank of fog
that may not ever lift with not even our memories to bring comfort...

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Wow! oustanding words!

[Wondering Mind]

this is very touching. I always prayed that I'd go fast like a shooting star rather than the slow fading candle.. I'm still praying

[Tate Morgan]

Alzheimer is now taking two of my friends it is hard to imagine we all face eventual erasure

[hmm]

my uncle and dad had alzheimers. It was sad really but at times it was funny. like what you have said here.

[Matthew Kult]

Fantastic write. Beautiful beautiful beautiful.

Regards,

Matthew

[Nimbus Thread]

I like Hit Play and Repeat as a title, its original and draws attention to the inner voice that is demanding a logical path in a trying, heartbreaking situation. And I don't mind the prose either. It's more immediate--it just all works.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

deeply moving writing~ thoughtful and inspirational~

[Thurston]

Don't tell me her life is without cause.
Even now she's teaching you
about love. So when your tears start building
and your heart bends till you think it will
break put your memory on repeat and hit
play.

© 2010 Cherrie Palmer