Lost In My Garden Poem by Edwina Reizer

Across the way and around the bend
my world comes to an end.
I do not venture further than that
but there's a garden there I tend.

Beyond the garden there is a fence,
a fence that keeps me here.
I'm not allowed to go anywhere.
I cannot disappear.

For I'm watched and guarded all the time,
never let alone.
But I made up my mind so long ago
that this place is my home.

I have no friends for I've been told
they're all afraid of me.
I must have done something terrible
but it's not in my memory.

Someone brings me out in the sun
and later brings me in.
I see people staring at me
as I lower my head and chin.

What was it I did? I can't recall
and maybe it's better that way.
When I'm in my bed with one bulb on
it's then I always pray.

'Please don't let me remember God.
Please let me stay this way.
For who will take care of my garden
on every sunny day? '