When Memories Fade

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When Memories Fade
                           by Bob Moore

I’m sorry  I don’t remember all the times we’ve had
the living and the loving, the good things and the bad
as I slip into yesterday, I don’t know what I have lost
it’s the people that I leave behind, who have to bear the cost

We lived a life together, but remember I cannot
the things that happened yesterday, are the things I have forgot
as gradually into the past, my memories will fade
and slip away, as never been, from the sunlight into shade

Don’t be too sad, my world is mine, whatever I may see
I can’t remember things I’ve had, or things that used to be
but now and then, for a time too short, I will know your name
and for that time, it will seem, I am me again

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Glen Schwartz

Date: 3/27/2017 8:05:00 PM

One of the Best poems I've read on this site.. I could feel every bit of emotion.. Thank you !! My Mom is feeling this way a lot But she to is OK with it as long as she feels she in in the present.. God Bless..

Robert J Moore
Date: 3/27/2017 11:14:00 PM

Thank you for your appreciation Glen, it is a very difficult time, and you can only be there, my poem "A Long Journey Alzheimers" is about my dad's journey, and may strike a few chords. About 7th in my list at the moment. Thank You

Maria Williams

Date: 3/20/2017 3:33:00 AM

Its such a sad time for family to see loved ones getting dementia. We had to see a very vibrant lady(my motherin law) who lived for her family, get it virtually overnight after a fall. I've written a poem about it called Christmas in July which I will be putting up soon. This is a great poem of yours Bob, very moving.

Robert J Moore
Date: 3/20/2017 5:09:00 AM

in my family it was my dad, had a stroke, then it took 15 years suffering before he passed, you may want to look at "A Long Journey Alzheimers"

Charlie Smith

Date: 2/28/2017 11:44:00 AM

Too sad a reality for to many. When tucked away in a nursing home, they refer to those sections, ironically as "Memory Units", far from it, the inmates don't even get a key...

Robert J Moore
Date: 2/28/2017 5:33:00 PM

Thanks Charlie, memories of my dad, there is another one about this I called The Long Journey Alzheimers