Back in March when isolation really began for the Pandemic, I had been visiting my husband in a nursing home almost every day. When visiting became a threat to the safety of the residents, I could no longer visit, except to wave at him from a distance, or see him through the glass window in a door. That is when I wrote this poem (I am not a poet, but I will call it that.)
I think some of my earlier art may show some of what I felt….
Isolation
Me, Myself and I
I talk with them every day
Coronus encircles
Not yet here
Surrounds in Silence
As dawn arrives
Earth is our dependable friend
With her sunrise, and sunset
And lovely embracing breeze
Routines have shattered
No daily visit to
Sit in the courtyard
Work the newspaper puzzle
His intellect still there
With the sometimes answer
Of an obscure fact
Only, then, he might ask
If I am his wife,
And, "How many years
Have I lived?"
No one can visit the wheel-chaired souls
No one will kiss the cheeks
No one will hold the hands
No one will wheel
Chairs into sunlight
Nancy Seib
March 24, 2020
Window Light
Art with a Story 
I found your poem very moving. Losing a loved one to dementia is very hard under any circumstances, but the pandemic has made everything more complicated. The artwork reflected the emotions of the poem perfectly.
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Thanks, Nancy, for sharing this with us. It is definitely a very personal statement about how this awful virus has affected you and Don so much more than many of the rest of us. Please take care,Nancy D
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I beg to differ. You are a poet after all. That was beautiful. I think many would identify with your experience. Send it out. Maybe the Senior magazine since that is the group most affected. s
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Thanks to both of you for your kind comments! Blogging seems to be a good way to express some of those unspoken emotions.
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Nancy,
Your piece with the negative figure really spoke to me. It’s like memory. We remember certain experiences, and there are missing pieces. The place may still be there but that figure in time, is not.
Thanks for the post
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