The content features a lyric poem reflecting on a family’s struggles with a mother’s memory loss, evoking feelings of heartbreak and helplessness. The author draws inspiration from Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees,” exploring themes of dementia while connecting emotionally to those experiencing similar challenges. The work highlights the pain of loved ones witnessing cognitive decline.
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Broken Crystal
The poem “Broken Crystal” reflects deep emotional turmoil, portraying a feeling of despair and isolation through vivid imagery, including broken glass symbolizing loss. The author, Colleen Keller Breuning, shares her personal connection to the poem and its inspiration from a Radiohead song while contrasting it with her current happy family life.
The Darkness
The Darkness The darkness descends with its gloomWrathful clouds release their cold rainAlone, imprisoned in this roomBold wind rattles the windowpane. Wrathful clouds release their cold rainOn a canvas of purple gloam.Bold wind rattles the windowpaneAs wayward geese make their way home. On a canvas of purple gloamHunter moon rises in night skyAs wayward geeseContinue reading “The Darkness”
Summer Storms
Summer Storms Summer storms are coming,I can feel them in my heart.Hope melting in extreme heatas the sky is torn apart. Thunder rolls in deep and fast,raindrops pelt my windowpane.Lone raven struggles in the windand I’m channeling his pain. Standing in the pouring rain,crying out, what am I doing here?Wash my sorrows into the ground,dissolveContinue reading “Summer Storms”
