Mum please will you forgive me
Sometimes I really want to scream
I often wish I could walk away
And live my perfect dream

Your dementia can be testing
Some days are worse than others
You behavior routines are erratic
And they really make me shudder

Please mum I really love you
I only want to care
It’s not your fault it’s my mind
Some days I’m going nowhere

Some days I often wonder
How much more I can carry on
With all my heart I don’t give up
To be your loving caring son

The many nights of sun-downers
Are breaking down my health
I know that if you had a clear mind
You would change the cards dealt

We will live each day at a time
I Consider words I don’t dare
If one day and it breaks my heart
If your final journey is in care

David Swinden 4/4/2016

Paradise that lives in the heart of a poet
Verses that spill forth don’t you know it
It’s a mystical beauty changing all day
From morning till night on this peaceful bay
From scent of the waters and the cry of a gull
The far distant ship the grayness of it’s hull
Cloud painted patterns from an artists brush
The words of a poet with sweet words of love
Home by the sea brings all kinds of emotions
Like the flow waves a rhythmical motion
From the seashells on the gold patterned sands
Two lovers strolling the beach holding hands
With pen and paper it’s my only place to be
My perfect place to write is home by the sea

David Swinden © 23/3/2016

Somewhere over a rainbow another place to be
Beautiful golden beaches, blue waves of foaming sea
Evergreen trees and roses red vibrant colors beautiful
Starfish drift in with the tide apples trees spawn fruitful
Unspoiled by mankind’s destructive industrious ways
Seals live in peace in winters cold, not being sleighed
Forests remain intact not butchered and turned to paper
Natures life survives in a world that’s much safer
Butterflies dance birds sing in springtime breeze
Somewhere over a rainbow another place to be

David Swinden © 3/3/2016

When I reflect on what I see in me
I see a person trapped as low as can be
A prisoner like a bird in a cage
On the outside peaceful, inside a rage
It’s hard to put into words and explain
I can’t find words to describe the pain
I’m lost, my world is an empty place
I look in the mirror and see no face
I live in the past with my childhood days
Remembering yesterdays smiles lasting always
I was going to be an astronaut with the stars
Not a failed life with no destiny to chart
A single person was this really meant to be
Is my only true love to be writing poetry
What I see in me is dark for those who read
These words are true and from my heart they bleed

David Swinden© 29/2/2015

Memories never fade since the day you past away
Ashes scattered amongst spring flowers that sway
It was your favourite place you spent time in summer
With dad now the two of you are together dearest Mother
In those beautiful Ornamental gardens ice cream in hand
Behind the trees you hear faint music from the bandstand
Birds singing all day and squirrels forage amongst the grounds
A symphony of natures beauty brings peace to those around
Now the two of you are together again I have nothing left to do
The only memory I have left is a photograph of you

Fictional for now. My mother has Alzheimer's.  

David Swinden© 23/2/2016