Lift Me Up

There will almost certainly come a time when we are completely dependent on other people.

We will desire something very simple then. For our humanity, the person we once were and whom, to ourselves at least, we perhaps still are, to be acknowledged and dignified.

”Don’t look down on me. Lift Me Up.”

The song of this name was written in memory of my mum, who had quite significant dementia. It lasted for a number of years, longer than the norm. And it was a hard watch. My Dad in particular dealt with this well. For all his faults, he treated her the whole time as simply the women he had married. It was his finest achievement in my eyes.

There is no adequate glory sometimes, in the most glorious actions that humans carry out. The ones in which we give ourselves , when there is nothing at all that we can or will receive back.


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