Attempting To Keep Peace Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Sadness in life comes from many directions, both interiorly and outwardly, unexpected, tapping our brains on the shoulder.

Waking us to the incessant pleasure or heartache that each comes with, personalities of people also are embedded into each individual.

When two people fall in love they come together with all their faults and failures, having to learn to overlook them, finding some common ground they can be comfortable in.

Yet along the way, things happen medically, doing our best, taking medications, getting rest, eating properly, but if one person decides to do whatever they want problems arise.

Especially not taking medications prescribed for Alzheimers, getting them fully into its spite, anger, forgetfulness, throw-
ing temper tantrums and throwing things.

Everything meshes, causing a care taker to become over-
whelmed, completely stressed out with no where to turn, no one there to help and life suddenly falls apart.

A dementia patient has no clue, but expects to be taken care of, getting angry, mentally and verbally abusing the one who's taking care of them, especially a loved one.

Sometimes just wanting to walk out the door and never come back fill thoughts of the caretaker, stressing them out even more, because they care.

Not knowing which way to go, crying in the darkness. left alone to deal with the now stranger they are living with, praying for help, but there's no one to be found.

Going within a shell interiorly, coping the only way they can, silent and not speaking, just listening to music and writing while doing their best possible to keep the peace, yet the peace never comes to light.