An Analogy of Memory Loss

It's a bit like...
you are in a bathroom
filling a hot tub,
slowly the steam 
covers the mirror...
and the mirror loses it's reflection;
that loss of reflection,
is my memory fading !


Elizabeth alexander          18/3/2016
inspired by fear: Alzheimers.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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