Imprisoned by a cruel disease
Robbed of precious memories
Walking
Walking
Endlessly
Going nowhere repeatedly.
Suddenly silenced, deprived of words
Voices hushed no longer heard
Staring
Staring
A haunting peer
Saying nothing – loud and clear.
Eyes that search for help in vain
Still filled with long forgotten pain
Searching
Searching
In despair
Seeing nothing everywhere.
Hands that dried their children’s tears
Now strangers to their needs and fears
Holding
Holding
Family ties
Now forgotten, vaporized.
Hour by hour, day by day
Imprisoned souls will slip away
Drifting
Drifting
Souls in flight
Out of darkness, through the light.
May heaven’s hand
Restore thee, Silent Knight.
HouseMouse said:
Very nice Jodi. I think you captured the look. Alzheimer’s patients look so totally normal at times but they are so totally lost. Thanks.
Shirley
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paisley said:
oops… sorry i cut it off in the first one….
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paisley said:
http://images.andale.com/f2/109/101/12725694/
2006/11/15/OldMan_BglsFl002.jpg
i want to pair the full poem with this picture… i think he looks as if he got confused and sat down,, and now cant remember what to do next,,, so he will comfort the puppies… what do you think????
thanks for the permission… let me know so i can post it….
paisley157@yahoo.com
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HouseMouse said:
Yes, Paisley you are welcome to use my poem on your site. Shirley
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HouseMouse said:
Thank you Oz. Alzheimer’s patients are very hard to describe but are best described with few words.
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ozymandiaz said:
beautiful write Shirley.
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whypaisley said:
going nowhere
saying nothing
seeing nothing
now forgotten
out of darkness…
these are the first phrases from the last stanza of each verse sin the last… i am wondering if i might pair them with a photo, on my blog, the ink pot???
journalshare.blogspot.com,, check it out and let me know.. i will of course credit you and redirect to the full poem here at this site….
you may also choose the picture of course….
paisley157@yahoo.com
why-paisley.com
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