Coordinators Highlight
Old age can come with its challenges. When you live with parents and people who forget easily because of old age, you can go through several ordeals. There is still no cure for dementia but there is hope with the Jupi project. It can be frustrating when it sets in. Seek medical help so it does not become worse. The fight is in your youth. Take care of your mental and physical health when you are stronger and in your youth. Take control of it now. Don’t wait till old age sets in.
 
 

Poem in full
In the middle of the cold and the rain
I take off my coat because I sweat profusely
I am at home yet behind the walls
 
I write a 7.30 am paper today
Here I stand still knocking
To have access into my room
 
He keeps on changing
What seemeth like a door key
As if they never enter their key holes
 
Two of us in a house
I didn’t lock the door
Yet he kept on chastising whoever did
 
In his state how will he believe
That he locked himself
And forgot where he placed the keys?
 
I am at home yet awake behind the walls
It is 3.00 am and I should be fast asleep
I have a 7:30 am paper
 
 

By Stevenson Cleardark
Poet/ Mental Health Activist