The Carer

The Carer

We often go unnoticed yet we’re present every day,
we do it for our love ones without the need for pay.
We watch the many changes and endure the painful aches,
we never turn our backs though, but the cycle never breaks.

We cry for what’s now missing and for us, it’s quite a lot,
we crave those special moments, the memories that we’ve got.
We cherish any contact or a voice that calls our name,
we wouldn’t sit in judgement or try to issue blame.

We shield the vulnerability and stand for what is right,
we are on call all the hours whether daytime or the night.
We never ask for glory, or the grandeur of great fame,
we do it from compassion and it’s here we will remain.

We don’t want to be invisible with no voice to call our own
we are not just someone’s carer to be left to fend alone.
We need to know we’re valued by society once more,
we only seek acknowledgement and not to be ignored.

Teresa Harrison-Best

© 2020

About the author

Teresa H-B
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Teresa lives in Worthing with her husband Stuart and their three rescue cats. She has recently retired from a long career in the Health and Social care sector, and has taken up Mosaics, Pilates and walking cricket. Her love of writing has always been prevalent throughout her life, and she wrote Catawall, fluent in feline following major surgery as a form of therapy. Her love of rhyme and rhythm feature in Catawall and her subsequent children’s books featuring Mackerel a piratical cat who captures the heart of everyone, even the ships mice and rats! ‘Mackerel and The Jolly Daisy’, ‘Mackerel and the Treasure Map’ and ‘Mackerel Saves the Day’. Her latest project Doggee Longlegs enters young fiction aimed at older children. Doggee is about young dog who starts life in a rescue shelter, overlooked on the homing day. Teresa is a great advocate of all animals and feels passionately about animal welfare, both at home and abroad.

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