Frequently, weight-loss frustration comes
because
one keeps expecting to see flowers
long before the seeds have been sown.

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LOOK CLOSER
  …by Phyllis McCormack
             (written in 1966 while working as a Nurse)

What do you see nurses,what do you see?
Are you thinking when you are looking at me,

A crabby 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, quite unresisting lets you do as you will
With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill?


Is that what you're thinking, is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am, as I sit here so still.

As I move at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten, with a father and mother
brothers and sisters, who love one another.