More unsolicited advice
to those still green behind their ears:
Beware!
The elder you might be talking with
may be bluffing!
SHe may not have the foggiest notion
about who you are!
Alzheimer's, Dementia, Senior Moments,
they are all too real.
As things are looking now
you too may be affected, eventually.
So, stay kind,
cultivate patience,
fall back on laughter,
but keep it real.
Tattered around the edges
no longer fresh and young,
but not yet ready to fall off
- the face of the earth.
About how I feel.
