Sunday, July 17, 2016

stumbling down the path

Hand in hand with my old mother, to prevent her from stumbling. To a hidden lake deep in the forest, on narrow bridges across rumbling rapids, into quiet cafés, on paths where memories are thick in the air. With gratefulness, with frustration, with longing.

There is something heartbreaking and deeply unfair in the frailty of old age. It was clearly not meant to exist.

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