Fade To Gray
Fade To Gray He doesn't wear his teeth anymore Or clip his nails. He stares from a frayed plaid chair Lingering only for death To come as a mist over the horizon Turning him ash-gray. I want to...
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just be glad you got to see the grey, better than dying in an accident young. Death comes to all and if you have lived long enough to be awaiting it, you have come a long way.... Sad is it when the...
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Just excellent Shir, the shades of gray and the charcoal which I can now no longer look at in quite the same way. I wonder, just why do old people wear pastel colours, and often do wear gray too, it...
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I gave up on teeth a while back and these days my sight is giving up on me ah, but to give in to entropy is too expensive a luxury... we struggle on
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Thank you Bard for reading and the thoughtful comments Welcome too! That's a great photo by the way, I guessing it's you.
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Thank you Sugar. Yes, that's my point with the shades of gray. So many "things" that some of us live with, that I my mind, are offen worse than dying. Especially those where the quality of life is...
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Thank you Matt. "More depressing to think on, deep charcoal. ... found the old man first Is that the one? The one that steals your mind?" Alzheimer's Disease
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We do struggle on Willow. I'm so greatful that I don't have a "thing" in my life worse than death to deal with. Alzheimer's is by far the most frightening disease to me. Something a body just can't...
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OK Shir, I read this character as an older person, probably due to fact he had no teeth. I agree sometimes death is a better option, when your quality of life has been stripped away. You don't know...
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Matt , I wasn't too sure some of the others did or would though. It's what it to the reader though, huh? I thought of using Alzheimer's in the title, but that was just a bit "too gray" it seemed.
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OhWait! You really want me to believe in a man who writes poems about ghosts??? That hardly stand a ghost of a chance!
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Oh ! Shir ! That was just so sad. and obviously very well thought out, else I wouldn't have found it so.
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Nageea ~ thank you for the read and reply. Yes, I agree there are so many sad situations that come with being human. (animals too.)
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Shir you paint the image well form the outside view. Recently I read a book about the inside view, from the point of view of the "sufferer" though after reading the book I wondered if "sufferer" might...
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Well penned OhShir, shades of gray hit me at times, then I think I have Part-Timers.......... WRITE ON!!
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Sugar ~ thank so much This was a touchy subject to take on, as maybe not everyone shares my view on where you raw the line about the quality of life. You are spot on in your take on this one. Thanks...
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R.G. my friend ~ In the mind of the Alzheimer, a plane of existence where in they reside gives them again contact through memory to a time where they are comfortable. I am SO glad you wrote this in...
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Jim ~~~ (it IS Jim isn't it? ... Jim? I can't remember, at least I can't say how many times gray pops into my day ...and it scares me. My daughters say I'm only preoccupied when I think I'm a little...
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