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The Bayfield Post, 1982-05-21, Page 7For sale WRITIN' 14 P ZOPE tRTY WHATNOT Bayfield. Ontario This Commercial Property includes 2 stores fronting on Main Street. Lovely 3 bedroom home with beamed ceilings in living room and dining room, both of which are beauti- fully finished in custom -cut pine. Property includes a spacious yard with large garage whi ch could be used as in the Summer.. This property could as a combination home and business, suitable as a place of fine dining, as a mini -mall. The facilities are a store be used. or is or even there. The only limitations are those imposed by one's lack of imagination. Priced to sell. Call 565-24.3 NORTH HURON BIG BROTHERS' ASSOCIATION 11 1 would like to volunteer to be a BIG BROTHER 1 understand that I will be contacted by a member of the Big Brothers' stuff. O 1 am a mother of a fatherless boy(s) and would like to know more about BIG BROTHERS NAME AGE OCCUPATION HOME ADDRESS PHONE (RES.) (BUS.) Mike Cox President Signature (Please sand to) BOX 382 GOOERICH, ONT. Elaine Smith Secretary 524.7$7$ PAGE 7 SOCIAL Brenda and Dennis Mi_skie and children Brook and Jana from Marathon, Ontario are visiting for two weeks with the lady's parents, Ruth and Arnold Makins. * * * * * * * * * Look closer, see me! THIS poem was found in the hospital beside locker of an old lady after her death. It was rescued by Mrs. T. Cowan of Highgate Hill, who does geriatric nursing.—The poem speaks for itself. What do you see nurses, what do you see? Are you thinking when you are looking at me— A crabbit old woman, not very wise, Uncertain of habit, with far -away eyes; Who dribbles her food and makes no reply When you say in a loud voice, `I do wish you'd try.' Who seems not to notice the things that you do And forever is losing a stocking or shoe. Who, unresisting or not, lets you do as you will 14'ith bathing and feeding, the long day to fill, Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see? Then open your eyes nurse, you are not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still, As 1 use at your bidding, as 1 eat at your will. I'm a small child of ten with a father and mother, Brothers and sisters who love one another, A young girl of sixteen with wings on her feet Dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet, A bride soon at twenty, my heart gives a leap, Remembering the voxes that 1 promised to keep. At. twenty-five, now I have young of my own ll'ho need me to build a secure, happy home. A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast, Bound to each other with ties that should last. At forty, my young sons, now grown, will be gone, But my man stays beside me to sec I don't mourn. At fifty, once more babies play round my knee, Again we know children, my loved one and me. Dark den's are upon me. my husband is dead. I look to the future', 1 shudder with dread, For my young are all busy raising young of their own, And 1 think of the years and the love that I've known. I'm an old woman now and nature is cruel, 'Tis her jest to Brake old age look like a fool, The body it (rumbles, grace and vigor depart, There is now a stone where 1 once ,rad a /wart. But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells, And now and again my battered heart swells. 1 remember the joys, I remember the pain, And I'm loving and living life all over again. And 1 think -of the years all too few—gone too fast And accept the stark fact that nothing will last. So open your eyes nurses, open and see Not a crabbit :rid woman. look closer—see me. REPRINTED BY SPECIAL REQUEST