What do you see,nurses,what do you see?
What are you thinking when you're looing at me?
A carbby old women,not very wise,uncertain of habit,with faraway eyes? Who dribbles her food and makes no replay,when you say in a loud voice,"I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice the thinks that you do,and forever is losing a stocking or shoe
Who, resisting or not,lets you do as you will,with bathing and feeding,the long day to fill
Is that what you are thinking?
Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes nurse;you're looking at me.
I'll tell you who i am as i sit here so still,as i do at your bidding,as i eat at your will.
I am a small child of ten with father and mother,brothers and sissters,who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen,with wings on her feet,dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty-my heart gives a leap,remember the vows that i promised to keep.
At twenty-five now,i have young of my own,who need me to guide and secure a happy home.
A woman of thirty,my young now grown fast,bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty,my young sons have grown and gone,but my man's beside me to see i don't mourn.
At fifty,once more babies play round my knee;again we know children,my loved one and me
Dark days are upon me,my husband is dead;i look at the future.i shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own,and i think of the years and the love that i have known.
I'am now an old woman...and nature is cruel;Tis just to make old age look like a fool!
The body,it crumbles,grace and vigor depart,there is now a stone where i once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass a young girl still drills,and now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys,i remember the pain,and i'm loving and living life all over again.
I think of the year all too few,gone too fast,and accept the stark fact that nothing can last.So open your eyes,people,open and see,not a crabby old woman;look closer see me.
i am writing this cuz this how i feel since i do work in a nurseung home and this is what i see when i am there.
