To Remember

I smile when you are near though my eyes look lost Their sparkle and twinkle forever gone, not only my cost I search always longing for the peace I can’t remember Feeling the love you offer and I don’t know though warm and tender Hiding in my confusion, fear guarding the gates Will I ever educe in me the love I see in your face Words and thoughts elude me, I know only I’m forgetting Things my mind has owned, a distant path I’m setting To remember how to remember, I fight each day to find Memories each day unblooming and dying in my mind Knowing I should know, this light grows ever dim Losing the strength I possess, a battle I cannot win The day when I look at you with no recognition in my eyes Know it is out of my hands and I’ve lost my awesome prize