For my Pa with love 💕
I don’t want to seem like a miserable t***!
but I miss my Dad and that is that.
Dementia! You can kiss my a***!
You took my Dad, now I bear the scars,
of losing a man I held so dear.
Every day I lived with the fear,
that my superhero Dad would forget who we were.
To look at our faces and it would all be a blur.
That never did happen, I’m so glad to say,
but for many others it just isn’t that way.
Dementia you see, it takes a person away,
from the life, the family… and who they are..
EVERY DAY!
Day by day, a little more goes,
how quickly it happens, well, nobody knows.
To become a mere shadow of your former self,
devastating to see and there is no help.
The cruellest thing in this life so far,
to remember how you were, then see how you are.
To watch your decline will always be,
what stuck that big, sharp knife in me
and pushed it right into my heart.
We should still be together, never apart.
I think about you daily with so much love
and hope you’re smiling down at us all from the clouds above.
I miss you Dad, I always will,
losing you has made me ill.
But I crack on as you’d want me to,
it’s hard, it’s sad, but it’s what I have to do.
Man, I wanted so much better for you.
As great men go, you were strong and kind, gentle and true.
James Arthur Bardon, there will never be another, sending lots of love from me, Paul, Robyn, Kendra, Stephen and of course my Mother! xxxxx
Susan Bardon
27/04/2026
