Tragedy of Alzheimer's

Forever Lost

He stands alone, weeping, broken,

Pathetic, shattered, and forlorn.

Words surround him, he can hear them

Curses, obscenities, vile, irate

Words he never thought she'd known.

Seated before him – an angry woman

Not the mother he used to know

That loving nature, forever giving

That generous soul with never a foe

Decorous persona, serene and tender, 

With a heart so pure it defied ill will!

Somewhere from the depths of evil

A cruel disease had o’rpowered her brain

Had turned that sweetness into rancour

And acrimony, unprovoked, unbidden

Had claimed authority o’er her reign.

Now broken-hearted, her son stands sobbing

Before a mother who remembers not

Those years now gone, so full of promise

Of sweet devotion and compassion, 

A life of glorious family love.

A doting mother she had once been

Cooing love songs to her spawn

Cradling children to her bosom

And her ever-loving heart. 

That mother love’s now but a memory

A mother whose son now mourns as gone!