An Old Lady

an old lady walks into a room

see the chair there no one sitting there

 the rooms feel lonely

and without sound

 

she sits down by the lonely chair

pictures of the wall

the tv on

just to make some noise

to killed the silence

 

Hears  a key in the door

its the lady from next door 

with her shopping

they chat and chat

she wants it to go on forever

but the lady has to go 

to see to her own home

 

as she closes the door 

her world is lonely once more

 

she got a phone

her kids ring now and then 

 

the years went by 

and her body aches

and her mind would wander

back to a time

when she was young

 

and before she knows it

the sunset comes

 

oh she wishes she could go out on her own 

and feel the air 

and the wind in her hair but

she has to be taken out in 

her wheelchair

 

oh how she use to run 

as far as she could 

play games

running  after 

her kids in the wood

and

she hugs her husband 

at night

and he would say 

are you, alright love 

the kids came to see her now and again 

she tells them she was fine

to get on with there own life 

it was on a summer day 

and she and her neighbour were chatting away 

and kids came to stay 

for a little holiday 

the sun was beating down 

warming her face

 

she could hear there laugher and joy 

she wasn't   lonely at that moment 

but out of the corner of her eye

she saw her love 

who said it time 

she smiles at her 

family 

and said enjoy the sun 

and she slips away