Babel is beautiful Covid really hurt Dad & me I was prevented from visiting him for two of his twilight years in Aged Care Which I do understand Anyway, With his dementia By the time I finally saw him He’d deteriorated a good deal & death seemed to be approaching He was basically non verbal by now This dedicated ex-priest, school teacher & poet One day at a visit soon after He seemed really ‘down’ He managed a couple of abortive monosyllables Over a few hours He seemed ‘not really there’ & then stunned me He uttered “suic” I was shaken I thought my meditative father had finally lost out to despair As in “suicide” For the next few days at work Teaching, following on from my father I had difficulty focussing & the word stuck with me Always in the back of my mind For his remaining 2 bedridden years & through the days of deep grief I received for him his death as...
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