Alabaster. Nancy Pietsch

Alabaster - Nancy Pietsch


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enigma that God has planned

      I will not question the meaning

      But I will set a goal

      To follow the Ten Commandments

      To try to save my soul

      Unaware

      When we reach a certain stage

      Where we no longer get to decide

      It leaves us without our hopes and dreams

      It leaves us horrified

      The choices in our future

      Are no longer up to us

      We don’t want to draw attention

      We don’t dare make any fuss

      The survival of the weakest

      For us is very real

      Even if our minds are sharp

      They, determine how we feel

      If we put up any protest

      And we have a white head of hair

      It automatically causes judgment

      With “I don’t think that she’s aware.”

      It’s possible that we’re not

      We ask, “What is this new pill?”

      We’re told that we must take it

      We’re not allowed to exercise our will

      We stay alive for your next visit

      At first, you come a lot

      Then it dwindles to nothing

      Now we don’t care if you come or not

      Why does it surprise you

      That we have lost our appetite?

      Or that we sleep during the day

      And cannot sleep at night

      We’re not interested in what you say

      We can’t hear to really care

      We’re no longer in your world

      Face it, you haven’t time to spare

      We have lost our hopes and dreams

      As well as our excitement and vitality

      These were all taken from us

      It has become our new reality

      We’ve decided to give up the struggle

      We’ve given up, we’ve lost the will

      We refuse to eat anymore

      We have the right to refuse the pill

      PS. This is something we’d like to tell you

      The day may come when you need extra care

      And even if your mind is sharp, God forbid

      You too are judged “unaware”

      In Passing

      It seems everything is mixed up

      We’re not growing old, after all

      Look at the common threads with our babies

      They have blankets, we have a shawl

      When we are toddlers, we measure our growth

      At adulthood, we stop growing tall

      Then along comes osteoporosis

      Causing our spines to grow again small

      Remember when you took your first step?

      We fell many times learning how

      Well, we’re back in that same situation

      But our bones break easier now

      When babies, our mothers would feed us

      We’d wear a bib to cover our clothes

      Now we’re back in that similar position, our

      Shaking hands drop food while we doze

      Babies are not born with teeth

      They eat pablem until their teeth come in

      Our teeth come out to soak in a glass

      Again eating pablem seems we just can’t win

      When toddlers are learning to talk, it’s difficult

      They get frustrated when not understood

      We, on the other hand, lose patience

      You see, our memories are not very good.

      For children, potty training isn’t easy

      They wear diapers, they’ve not learned control

      Our bladders and bowels have weakened

      We’ve lost the muscles to hold in the flow

      When babies are taking their first steps

      A walker steadies them on their feet

      We too have gone back to this practice

      But now our walkers are also a seat

      Like toddlers that sleep in daybeds

      Like babies who sleep in cribs

      Our beds are equipt with railings

      So we don’t roll out and break any ribs

      Do you see, we are growing younger

      Soon we’ll be right back at the start

      Soon it will be increasingly difficult

      To tell us…from babies…apart!

      Half as Much

      I’ve always been a pessimist

      I don’t believe in every day bull

      My glass is always half empty

      My glass is never half full

      A pessimist questions everything

      An optimist sees only good

      If I see a problem arising

      I’ll try to solve it, I think that I should

      An advantage for you to consider

      Is the half-empty glass if you will

      When something unseemly happens

      I have half as much…in it…to spill

      Red Dress

      If the day is overcast and cloudy

      And it seems that it couldn’t be duller

      I’ll put my flaming red dress on

      Wearing the blues is just not my color

      Heh, Sister

      Heh, sister, let’s go out tonight

      Let’s take hours getting pretty

      We could dine at that fancy restaurant

      Where our conversations can turn witty

      We could visit with artistic types

      There isn’t anything we can’t discuss

      We’re two women of the world

      Seat us


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