We saw a little River near the road

Rapidly it danced as on it flowed.

Who would think the dirty river Lea

From such delightful springs would come to be.

As by the happy meadows it flowed by

We lingered on the edge where flowers lie.

Little cranesbill, daisy,buttercup

Silver rain will water this fine. crop

We were all helpless at birth and without Care we would die .

So when we are ill or disabled the memories be flood us more for those with bad memories

Anyone who is rude or cruel will have a bigger by effect than normal.It can be very frightening in hospital.

While I have been in hospital I have found some of tm the staff respond to patients in a manner described by R D Làing in his book The Divided Self.

I could hear someone crying every evening for several hours

I could not decide if it was a baby, The wailing was like a baby’s but the larynx was too powerful, I eventually found it was patients with dementia..

Before that I was told I was imagining it I was afraid wondering if my distress was making me sad and I was projecting it into someone else.

It is sad and I feel it but that is better than being told you are round the bend

Then people I was phoning asked me who it was.So it was they could hear it

The crying has been heard by me now in 3 places.i find it is the same strange sound Exactly the same whoever they are It is not personalised.It may be a default sound I feel their grief. I have worked with the elderly but I have never heard this sound before I notice the average age of people in these places is much older than when I am spent my vacations working in hospitals and homes.,It is tragic