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title: "Before Your Eyes"
author: "Rhonda Weiss, Leeds, NY"
date: 2026-11-08
category: "Poetry"
canonical: https://creationsmag.com/news/before-your-eyes/
description: "If you watch, I am Going to deteriorate Before your eyes Not because I want to But, because I have no Choice Showers only last so Many days"
image: https://creationsmag.com/assets/img/news/before-your-eyes.webp
publisher: "Creations Magazine"
site: https://creationsmag.com/
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# Before Your Eyes

*by Rhonda Weiss, Leeds, NY*

If you watch, I am  
Going to deteriorate  
Before your eyes  
Not because I want to  
But, because I have no  
Choice  
Showers only last so  
Many days  
Washing underarms can only  
Extend it but a few  
(Days) more  
Hair can only be  
Arranged so many  
Ways  
Before it looks  
Dirty and unkempt  
Clothes to change into  
Run out  
There is no place to  
Sort through my  
Prescription medications  
Before they too run out  
And my medical conditions  
Run  
Amok  
I can’t go to work  
If  
I’ve, nowhere to live  
I’ve degrees but  
So what  
If I can’t find  
Accessible housing  
Affordable housing  
You soon will  
Call  
Me a “bum”  
Instead of by my given name  
My humanity  
Is being lost  
As I deteriorate  
Before your eyes  
But, you refuse  
To lend a helping hand  
And I have done  
All that I could do  
To remain  
Like  
One  
Of  
You

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Published by Creations Magazine. Read it on the site: https://creationsmag.com/news/before-your-eyes/