Day 21: "View"

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Today's theme: "View". This photo is a view
of the wisteria tunnel referred to in the poem below. 

My fitness challenge: My goal is to do 3 x 30 supported pull-ups at Level 1 by 30th January 2015. And to write a poem everyday.

My progress: Back to the gym today, where I did the usual workout, but decided I would add in a challenge test to see what my progress is like. I managed to do 2 x 30 supported pull-ups, then had a break and did some leg work. After 10 minutes I did 1 x 25 supported pull-ups. So: progress, thankfully, with 8 days to go. [Note though, it sounds easier than it was!].

Poem:

View.

Today is memory.

Through window grime

to park: the wisteria tunnel

where once there was a rocket

and a roundabout

long since gone.

where once I pushed a stroller

with grandparents

long now dead.

On Sunday I walked there with you

once-were-Helen. Mother.

We sat on the second wooden bench

your eyes closed/skin an empty shell.

My eyes blinded.

A young girl runs past, we stir.

There's a Labor Party BBQ. Speeches I can't hear.

I think of David Hicks. Your protest.

I want to tell you: He's free now Mum. 

Vindicated. I know you'd be pleased.

Through window grime
to park, and the wisteria tunnel:
Yes, I see the landscape of my years,
and the view of yours forgotten.


Merilyn Childs, 21/1/2015


[The gym I work out at has a view over a park where I walk my mother, who has Alzheimer's].