All day in the one chair
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged
In rambling talk with an image of air:
Vague memories, nothing but memories.”
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), poet, writer
Upon closer inspection, it's a bit tattered and torn and sadly symbolic of how society treats its elderly -- tossed aside and placed out of the way...
2 comments:
What a sad post and yet, there's some truth to it, too.
Hi Janet, It's so nice when you stop by. I didn't intend to write that about the elderly until I started writing. I guess visiting my great aunt in her convalescent hospital has made me keenly aware of how we treat our old.
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