Alzheimers Poems

i remember getting old

we know more now than we knew then
.
we were younger
smiles came easy
and memories were made
like spun cotton candy
and one pony carousels
.
there were fewer reasons to cry
more seasons to fly
and the red in red roses 
seemed never to fade away
.
it was easy to laugh and run into the forest
golden with morning
to lay for hours watching clouds
and

My Daddy had Alzheimers

Her children thought something about their father was off
They did not know what it was
Having never thought of dementia or Alzheimer’s before

They attempted to tell Mom their concerns
She refused to see anything weird in her husband
He’s a bit slower, that is all.
She had jammed herself in the middle of a bread pan of denial

Finally, she

alzheimers denial

His equilibrium was off
Unbalanced, unsteady gait
Forgetting words for truck and grass
His wife refused to see it
Ignoring his Alzheimer’s for four years
Until her life was endangered by his erratic actions

this and that and thus and such

this and that and thus and such
hearing, seeing, smell, taste, touch
which will old age steal? not much
  just this and that and thus and such

will I know beloved ones...
lifelong sweetheart? daughter? sons?
thanking those with whom I've dined
  not sure why they've been so kind

in this home but not sure why
who will hold me

Never Letting Go

No-one aspires to have Alzheimer’s…it’s a disease we long to defy….
one ailment we hope as we get older…will simply pass us by.

But one of the mysteries of life that fluster, frustrate and confuse…
Is when it comes to whether or not we get Alzheimer’s…we don’t get to choose.

A memory popped into my mind today…of a time

Out of Reach

One of the cruelest aspects of Alzheimer’s is the way this disease unfolds…
how it’s able to disguise itself, at first, as just a part of growing old:

It began with her misplacing and forgetting things for that’s what old age does.
then progressed to her looking at me…bewildered…forgetting who I was.

Such is the demeanor of this disease…the

Alzheimers

The diagnosis came
As a bit of a shock
I am starting on Alzheimer’
Slowly tickling clock.
Will I be watching in horror
From a near zombie state
As my body develops
Into a thing I would hate.

Unable to speak or
Express any thought,
Fly in spider’s in a web
Pulled relentlessly taut.
Will it be a prison.
Will there still be a me.
Will I be mind

Alzheimers

Confusion, anger, helplessness.
Where is it?
What did I do with it?
Did someone take it?

Denial
That doctor is crazy.
There's nothing wrong with me.
Everyone forgets things now and then.

They're trying to get rid of me.
Conspiring against me.
They want what I have acquired.
No one cares what happens to me.

My only friend is the dog.
The only one who still loves me.
He

A Long Goodbye

A Long Goodbye

A vast familiar landscape
flutters and faulters;invites and departs

Fog slowly rolls in, shrouding present and past,in a harsh, lonely tomb

6/11/22

Alzheimers

Alzheimers 
Some say Alzheimers took you,
But I simply don't agree,
Yes you didn't recognise my face,
But your heart remembered me. 

I never saw you as a partly missing,
Or as a flicker of your former self,
I saw you as my Grandma,
And simply nothing else. 

Your heart was filled with love,
No negativity at all,
Your alzheimers gave you powers,
It

A Letter From An Alzheimers Victim To His Son

This is a place where confusion found a home
                               I am lost, in bondage, aimless, free to roam.
       

She Knew

The daughter suspected there was something wrong…she found it most upsetting…when she began to notice all the little things her mother was forgetting.

And the more she saw her mother falter…her misplaced keys…her lost glasses…her forgotten shoes…The more confusion she saw on her mother’s  face…the more and more she knew…

It made her want to throw

Thoughtless Departure

You have left me without leaving,
Your presence here beyond deceiving.
We share a space where you are not,
You’ve gone on to I know not what.
Desertion was not your plan at all,
But your mind, by a siren call,
Loosed our forever knot,
And left me looking where you’re not
For the love and life we shared,
Shattered now with no hope

Dementia Vs Alzheimers

Dementia vs. Alzheimer's
Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life.
	Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer's is a specific disease. Dementia is not.

Could these diseases be a prelude to Birth ???
A time when we lived with cosmic consciousness.
A time when we lived within

Disease Holds Her Hostage

She has never seen such a wildness
She laughs so loudly that people are looking
She had never laughed this loudly before
Her relatives began shushing her

But she is eighty-six years young
And this silliness tickled her funny bone
She cannot stop laughing at the craziness
Her husband is dead, so he can no longer silence her

She settles down after awhile

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