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Grandma

April 18, 2019
By romaclifford123 BRONZE, Congers, New York
romaclifford123 BRONZE, Congers, New York
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I scrape my knee, i run to you

I can't make food but am hungry, i run to you

You can't understand me but i understand you

Sab kuch thik hai beti


I come home from school sad, i come to you

I forget to do chores, i come to you

You can now understand me and I understand you

Sab kuch thik hai beti


I try to tell you about stuff, you can't understand

I try to remind you who i am, you can't understand

You barely understand me but I understand you

Sab kuch thik hai beti


You fall and call out for me, I run to you

You can’t understand the doctors, I translate for you

You can’t feed yourself, I come to you

You sit there not sure what is happening, in an unknown world

But when I come to you

Everything is okay


The author's comments:

This poem is about my grandmother who doesn't speak English and has Alzheimer's, she took care of me a lot when I was a child, and would always say the phrase “sab Kuch thik hai beti” which means everything is okay my dear. I wrote this poem when sitting in her hospital room after she had a huge surgery that worsened her alzheimers making her regress into a childlike state so that now I have to take care of her.


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