General Poetry posted August 31, 2016


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A poem about Alziemers

Memories

by bob cullen

Memories


The old gate's hanging open
Like it always did
His mind's now much the same
Memories are struggling to stay alive
There's no heat where once there was flame

The cows are long gone
The paddocks are bare
As is the tree where we kids would climb
Memories are lost in a haze that's unfair
It's like poetry that's begging for rhyme

Off to Nanna's and Pa's
Every second weekend
Two hours of fighting cramped in a car
Memories don't mean nothing no more
There's no close, things now are so far

She opened the door
Let yesterday in
Saw a smile rise on his face
Memory is here, it'll be gone in a flash
Replaced by an empty meaningless space

Now yesterday's faded
The friends are still there
In his mind he's alone in his room
Memory loss is such a sad cruel thing
It brings death long before there's a tomb



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This is a rewrite of a poem posted previously. I was never quite happy with the original version. In a sense it is the story of my father-in-law
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