10/10/2024
Home alone aged care homes
Her bags upon the vinyl floor Taxi man standing by the door
Don’t worry love slow down we’ve got time She’s all alone now the cat has died
The kids no longer call or phone too frail to live here on her own
Tears they glisten in both their eyes the hardest of all are the goodbyes
Children’s toys photograph’s a torn page grand kid's drawing, fade with age
The swing, clothes line, veggie patch memories captured long since past
Her footsteps echo on the vinyl hall her arm is bruised from her fall
Strangers living now next-door neighbours gone they call now more
House sold beneath the hammer’s blow the nest is empty her kids have flown
They don’t care they will get their share a silent phone looks forlorn
Paranoia of daughter in law their lives too busy now to call
Her son’s head twisted believed the lies a stranger now tears she’s cried
The skip is waiting in the yard old furniture and photographs
Rocking chair and her art emotions bruised and torn apart
They called a few times when she had her fall, she’d slipped in the vinyl hall
They told her tales of financial woes they got the money now she knows
They tell her all she wants to hear play upon her needs and fears
She signs the papers and sighs alone betrayed now by her very own
Grand kids used as weapons pawns and tools elder abuse by greedy fools
Do they seriously think she can’t see the lie? she nods her head and cries inside
The room is empty where she gave birth the love and grace that they shared
They’ve forgotten her now what was her crime her mind it screams?
The brochure is there on the floor glossy photographs of the aged care home
Staring at memories within her mind betrayed now by her own kit and kin
The taxi man helps her down the steps don’t look back he knows what’s best
Selfishness has robbed wisdom and souls locked away in aged care homes
Now treated as commodities driven from communities
They’ll milk them dry till they die someday they will call for you and I
Flu and pneumonia, they slip away corona virus comes into play
Houses and furniture expenses paid tea and sandwiches and the grave
Love and compassion have lost their way aged care homes user pays
Can you take me home voice and eyes plead
Out of sight is out of mind I’ve hugged and loved them as they cried
Cultures destroyed it’s all there to see what has become of humanity
I have seen the elderly weep and cry in aged care homes before their time
Robbie Dunn all rights reserved © 6/8/2017
C O Irish Entertainment Brisbane Australia
APRA Australia
