Crabbit Old Woman <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
What do you see nurses? What do you see?<\/p>\n
What are you thinking? When you are looking at me<\/p>\n
A crabbit old woman not very wise,<\/p>\n
Uncertain of habit, with far-away eyes,<\/p>\n
Who dribbles her food, and makes no reply,<\/p>\n
When you say in a loud voice,'I do wish you'd try'.<\/p>\n
Who seems not to notice, the things that you do,<\/p>\n
And forever is losing, a stocking or shoe,<\/p>\n
Who unresisting or not, lets you do as you will<\/p>\n
With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill,<\/p>\n
Is this what you're thinking? Is this what you see?<\/p>\n
Then open your eyes nurse, you're not looking at me.<\/p>\n
I'll tell you who I am, as I sit here so still,<\/p>\n
As I use at your bidding, as I eat at your will.<\/p>\n
I'm a small child of ten, with a father and mother,<\/p>\n
Brothers and sisters who, love one another,<\/p>\n
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,<\/p>\n
Dreaming that soon now, a lover she'll meet:<\/p>\n
A bride soon at twenty, my heart gives a leap,<\/p>\n
Remembering the vows, that I promised to keep:<\/p>\n
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own 5<\/p>\n
Who need me to build, a secure happy home.<\/p>\n
A young woman of thirty, my young now grow fast,<\/p>\n
Bound to each other, with ties that should last:<\/p>\n
At forty my young ones, now grown will soon be gone,<\/p>\n
But my man stays beside me, to see I don't mourn:<\/p>\n
At fifty once more, babies play round my knee,<\/p>\n
Again we know children, my loved one and me.<\/p>\n
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead,<\/p>\n
I look at the future, I shudder with dread,<\/p>\n
For my young are all busy, rearing young of their own,<\/p>\n
And I think of the years, and the love I have known.<\/p>\n
I'm an old woman now, and nature is cruel<\/p>\n
'Tis her jest to make old age look like a fool.<\/p>\n
The body it crumbles, grace and vigour depart,<\/p>\n
There now is a stone, where I once had a heart:<\/p>\n
But inside this old carcass, a young girl still dwells,<\/p>\n
And now and again, my battered heart swells,<\/p>\n
I remember the joys, I remember the pain,<\/p>\n
And I'm loving and living, life over again,<\/p>\n
I think of the years, all too few – gone too fast,<\/p>\n
And accept the stark fact that nothing can last.<\/p>\n
So open your eyes nurses, open and see,<\/p>\n
Not a crabbit old woman, look closer – see ME.'<\/p>\n
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