Beyond Memory

Memory plays ‘hide-and-seek’.
Mind is a sorry seeker in this game.
A doctor prescribes to cure ‘the void’.
It’s a learned hypocrisy.

Words clash one another on Mrs.Pathu’s
tongue and fall down meaninglessly.
Infancy is reborn in the wet
shade of her Alzheimer’s.

Memory sets in her present
and rises in her past.
Intermittently falling beams
glare in her eyes.

She bobs up and down like the jetsam 
on the waves.
Now, life announces
its retrieval in doleful tones.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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February 21, 2016 at 1:33 PM
Deep write Fab, Enjoyed the way you expressed every line. Please keep writing and sharing your poetry. LOVE LINDA
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