THE KEY
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
THE KEY
Imprisoned in a nameless world
She has forgotten to pine
It was always like this as it were
Only an endless present
She smiles
Like a newborn in sleep
If you call her
She will look up
Though not sure if that word (name)
Belongs to her
Days into nights
And nights into days
She breathes and vegetates
All this because she has lost
Her key to the past
Never to be retrieved
Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ The Key @
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As you say! and we attending know the key is lost and sigh for her not knowing what she is doing inside. We've lost the key to that. Double loss.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be hard to lose the key to the past. Not that one should fixate on the past, butI think it is often the past that gives the present meaning....so we wouldn't want to lose it.
ReplyDeleteoh i feel rather sad for her...i would never want to just sit there in a vegetative state.....
ReplyDeleteTo lose that key to the past, very sad indeed ~ What memories would hold her, nothing but nameless world ~
ReplyDeleteNo one should ever want to loose that key to the past...that makes one without any root... :-( ..nicely done ..
ReplyDeleteIt is sad when old ones lose their memories - which are their greatest treasures. Hopefully by the time it is all gone, they dont realize what is missing any more.
ReplyDeleteDementia is a terrible affliction. Sad poem.
ReplyDeleteI knew who you spoke of and I could picture her in my mind. So sad.
ReplyDeleteShe seems like she is in coma and has lost the touch with her life. nice write.
ReplyDeleteReally sad...
ReplyDeleteAmnesia --- a dreadful affliction.
ReplyDeleteYou described the 'being lost', so well here.
Losing the key to yourself is the worst possible loss...beautifully told
ReplyDeletesad indeed. still a great piece. if only she recovered her keys. :( thanks Sumana for enlightening me once again with this masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteVery melancholic and heartwrenching. Hopefully she had a life well lived so that there are others to carry on her story even if she has lost the keys to her past.
ReplyDeleteHope she has someone to guard her, to carry for her..from other side - memory lost it's the defence of the nervous system in stressful life/situation...~ feel the concern of the narrator....
ReplyDeletesad that she has lost her keys of past...it's painful for the person who takes care of her..
ReplyDeleteHave seen and experienced the pain and helplessness on one afflicted. My late MIL who passed on at 88 was just lost and we all had to be most understanding of the whole episode.Nicely Sumana!
ReplyDeleteHank
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSorry I am slow in responding. Your email which has a noreply-comment@blogger.com return address. It automatically goes into my spam folder. I am glad I checked.
Have a great weekend.