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I A(lzheimers)m
When light envelopes my pint-sized dwelling,
I awaken but cannot remember where I am currently existing.
Who is she, trying to force upon me unfair portions of pills?
Who is this handsome stranger?
He desparately explains that he is related to me by blood-grandson.
Does he have my chin?
Is that my chin?
Surely, that is my chin, it has to be,
I have to leave my mark on something more sustainable than a photograph.
Otherwise, more than traces of my memory will have disappeared.
Some mornings, I open my silver-speckled eyes that cannot cite the function or name of what it is they are witnessing.
Anxiety is a common visitor;
I worry that I will not remember what morning is come the upcoming sunrise.
I'm not crazy, I can't be crazy,
do i even recall what crazy is?
Fact is, I haven't been this way forever,
though I cannot prove that true.
The pretty lady grasps my frail hand,
freckled with sun spots,
and convinces my that we've had a memorable life together.
But I often think that this oddly familiar lady must be lying,
a memorable lifetime would mean that I remember it, right?
I pray to God that one of these days,
I will forget how to forget.
My memory failed me in few fragments at first.
It used to be simpled things-
tying my shoes, picking up my fork, brushing the wisps of hair that grace my head.
Then it happened it memory-blowing bombs.
I forgot what pride was-being a father,
What love is-being a husband,
Being a dreamer-ambition.
They say you are not your disease,
but my condition, like the morning light in my room,
has enveloped me.
I have forgotten what and who I once was,
so all that I've yet to be is alzheimer's.
I am alzheimer's.
I am alzhemier's.
I am..
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