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Rated: E · Poetry · Biographical · #2070313
A poem I wrote while she was struggling with Alzheimer's
The Water Is Rising

My mother
is in the river
and the water is rising.
Clinging to a dead branch
she struggles.
When the torrent
breaks the branch
and swallows her whole,
where will she go?
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