It Feels So Right
Making You Smile
Where I could be anywhere
I choose to be here
Giving each other company
When the day can be long
There are many ways we can make a difference
Sharing stories or changing someone's mood from sad to just a little better
It is easy to live our life
Far away from a brick faced building
With many cars and an ambulance waiting
We spend so much time in work ,watching t.v. , running errands
Do we want to forget
The people that are left
In nursing homes across the country
Waking up every day
Not feeling great or having the time of their life
In a place where they can not leave
Yet so necessary to keep them safe
Forgotten and left alone except for the nurses aides and nurses
Doctors and social workers
The hallways and activity room is over flowing with patients who are dealing with their own difficult situations
Watching as visitors come and go
Looking at four walls and a small window across the room
A television left on to drown out the loneliness
The beautiful home we once new
Replaced piece by piece
With a stuffed animal or a book
A small bed side table with a box of Kleenex
A small styrofoam cup filled with water with a bendable straw just within an arms reach
Tiny hard candies or cookies as treats
Waiting, waiting
To be eaten
A collage of family pictures squished in a corner
An extra blanket and pillow piled high on a chair
The sound of unfamiliar voices and constant buzzing
How different our life has changed
Our home and all our objects of affection
All our rooms and furniture traded for a plain wooden bureau with no mirror
So we can not see our past and the life we have lived
Now we are in a place
Wondering if we are forced
To spend our remaining days
How sad
Stop and think
For this moment
A glimpse to our own future
See if we would be just as happy
Now I lean back instead of rushing out
Take a long breath as I hear a woman moan
Feeling how hard it must be to get comfortable
Fixing your pillow one more time
Eating meals that I have only two choices
Neither one not being tasty or mouth watering
Even the sunlight looks dim
Erasing all my bad or unhappy thoughts
Time to create
I let every happy memory fill my mind
Closing my eyes
Thinking what it means to be kind
How to take this moment and make it magical
Talk or tell a story that makes a flower bloom
Bring back the sound of rain
Followed by a sudden boom
Take in every ounce of life and spread it far and wide
This is the only way
I would want to spend my day
Feeling joy and all there is
Where we are we can not change
Who we are is what really matters
Finding one more way to receive
A love so deep
Such a special gift
Learning what it really means to give