<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dementia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother forgot how to swallow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Before that, she lost my face and my name, <br> erased from her memory by sickness and age.<br> Her nurses complained she took too long to feed<br> They wanted a peg and a tube for the deed</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> My mother forgot how to swallow</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> She forgot her late spouse, disremembered her vow.<br> With the loss of the past there is no here and now.<br> Once she read to my child, then my girl read to her-<br> Until all the sounds were a meaningless blur</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> My mother forgot how to swallow</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br> Jesus and Mary and her patron saint<br> would loved to have helped her, so weak and so faint, <br> but she had forgotten the simplest prayer -<br> the beads in her hand little use to her here. <br> <br> My mother forgot how to swallow</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> The night nurses found her while making their round<br> She was cold to the touch, no pulse to be found<br> She stared, eyes wide open, at the cross on the wall<br> Perhaps the Messiah had come after all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419981" data-title="Dementia de John F. McCullagh" data-description="My mother forgot how to swallow. Before that, she lost my face and my name, erased from her memory by sickness and age. Her nurses complained she took too long to feed They wanted a peg and a tube for the deed My mother forgot how to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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