What do you see nurses,
Do you see~
A person who dribbles her food,
A woman who doesn't seem to notice
A person, maybe resisting at times,
Is that what you're thinking?
Then open your eyes nurses,
I'll tell you who I am,
I'm a child of ten
A young girl of sixteen,
A bride soon at twenty,
At twenty-five now
A young woman of thirty,
At forty, the young ones are grown
At fifty once more,
Dark days are upon me,
For my young ones are all busy,
I'm an old woman now,
The body is crumbled,
But inside this old carcass,
I remember the joys,
I think of the years,
So open your eyes, nurses,
What do you see?
What are you thinking,
When you look at me?
A crabby old woman,
not very wise
uncertain of habit,
with far away eyes.
and makes no reply
when you say in a loud voice,
"I do wish you'd try"
the things that you do,
and forever is losing
a stocking or shoe.
lets you do as you will,
with my bathing and feeding,
and handing me my pills.
Is that what you see?
cause you're not looking at me.
as I sit here so still,
as I rise at your bidding,
as I eat at your will.
With a mother and father
and brothers and sisters,
who love one another.
with wings on her feet,
dreaming that soon now
a lover she'll meet.
the heart gives a leap,
remembering the vows
that I promised to keep.
I have young of my own,
who need me to build
a secure, happy home.
my young now grow fast,
bound to each other,
with ties that should last.
and soon will be gone.
But my man stays beside me,
so I don't feel so alone.
babies play round my knee.
Again we know children,
my loved one and me.
my husband is dead,
I look at the future,
and I shudder with dread.
rearing young of their own,
and I think of the years
and the love I have known.
and nature is cruel.
Nature makes old age
look like such a fool.
grace and vigor depart.
There is now a stone
where I once had a heart.
a young girl still dwells.
And now and again
my battered heart swells.
I remember the pain,
and I'm loving and living
life all over again.
all too few, and gone to fast,
and I accept the stark fact
that nothing can last.
open them and see,
look a little closer, nurses...
Please~~see the real ME.
