Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Jacob's Trial ( Life with dementia)




Where have they all gone, memories


Lost in a misty haze


Things that happened, yesterday


Forgotten, in a mental maze






Yes, she can remember  "yesterday"


Though 70 year's in her past


Walking through her childhood


In meadows of fresh cut grass






Clearly she has left us


Yet, intimate moments she recalls


When she was another's daughter


With dreams, and skips, and falls






Looking still he remembers


The beauty that was his bride


Her frustration now turned to anger


Destroyed! Is his once held pride






Memories, held in hand so golden


The treasury of so many years


This man so strong, on his knees


Her husband and lover, left in tears






Waiting there, at this end


Both gripped in this disease


Only fragments held in peace


Comfort them God, Oh please!

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