We humans, we’re a social bunch,
We love to visit over lunch,
Or gather all together to,
Laugh and joke and ballyhoo.
But isolation, we abhor,
In Pandemic, e’en before!
We’re social creatures, to survive,
Those networks help keep us alive,
But as we age, those networks grow
More limited as people go,
And if we don’t maintain or build,
Important needs won’t be fulfilled,
And real risks are amplified,
Like health, dementia, suicide,
What can be done to help them out—
Those lonely hearts we hear about?
Increase their people, draw a crowd,
Keep them busy, start it now!
Cause growing old’s not meant to be
Done alone. We all agree,
Today’s ‘Cheer Up the Lonely Day’,
To ascertain that they’re okay,
Let’s make a pact when this day’s gone,
We’ll make it daily from now on!
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| Photo Credit: Karen of bakinginatornado.com |
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen, Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?
Topics for the next few weeks...
So true, and I love how the internet in general and blogging specifically gives us another way to draw people into our circle.
ReplyDeleteReaching out to others, no matter how you do it. keeps people alive and happy. Thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful and true. Thankful for all my groups as I grow older -- especially my wonderful blogging friends (like you).
ReplyDeleteThis is so true, and I saw it in action with my husband's late aunt, who reached the age of 107. She kept mentally active until her last two years, when dementia descended, but needless to say, all her friends and contemporaries were long gone by then. But she treasured relationships generations younger than hers, and that's one of the secrets to staying young.
ReplyDeleteAs i have seen first-hand, the isolation of Covid has wreaked havoc on the elderly in places where no one was allowed to visit. This is why i go see Ms. S as often as i do.
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