I Am Ready

Posted on October 7, 2022 by admin

 

I Am Ready

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Julie Holland Loveland

Founding Member · July 20 at 1:17 PM

I am ready to take a walk. She has to unload her purse to see if there’s anything she might need. ….. I try so hard to be patient… It’s wearing thin. Sometimes it’s not even worth taking a walk. 🙃

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Created 7/22/2019

IAM READY

 

  1. W. bryce

 

I am ready to take a walk; she has to unload her purse.

She dumps everything out, in case there’s something else that she needs;

Painstaking is it waiting for the big miscelany to sort;

I am ready to take that walk, she forgets what she forgot,

She changes her coat, the style is not quite right for the walk

 

I am ready after a rest to start all over again

She taps her toes as she sits, the delay is obviously me;

I sigh and we head for the door, but wait: She has to pee.

I am ready to give it all up, but she is anxious to go

But after the delay, It is now me who has to go for a pee!

 

I come back out, I’m ready to go, but she is fixing her hair!

I heave a sigh and I take a chair and she says don’t you dare!

I want to give up on the walk, it doesn’t seem to be worth.

But she says, come on then, dear, to miss our chance would b e a sin.

We’re ready to go, I open the door – the rain comes sweeping in!

 

Life with an Alzheimer’s person can be such fun!

Even younger people can and do get stricken with ALZ

And some people at the age of puberty and into the teens

Can and do suffer from indecision

I was one of the: crippled by the inability to make a decision.

 

 

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I am ready to give it up, she is ready to   change her shoes

 

I am ready again to go, she wants to know where and whyS

 

Now she;s ready to go, but wait,                now she has to go for a pee

 

Now, ready or not, we walk, but, oh no,                 now she must retie her shoes

I am no longer ready       she now is, “Come on, then,” she says

And opens the door. The rain is in the midst of a downpour.

I am ready for a rest        she decides to sweep the clean floor…

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Brenda Johnson Stroth  adds:

Waiting on her is so frustrating, I get it! You just want to get a walk in!!!! The fact that you care enough to take her on a walk, or anywhere… Priceless.
We recognize the cost, don’t we? But in the long term… Invaluable. Thank you.

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Judge at 6th Rabindrinath Tagore Awards - International - English Poetry Contest Author of Ann, A Tribute, and Chasing a Butterfly, A story of love and loss to Acceptance with the poetry of Alzheimer's and poetry for everybody. Appears in anthologies in Canada, US, India, Mexico and Bolivia. Poetry in Ekphrastic Review and NWriteers International Networeworld Review. Member of Federation of BC Wrters, Royal City Literary Society, and Holy Wow Poets Canada. Member Writers International Network: Distinguished Poet, Distinguished writer.
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