A reflection on how age affects us, even more tragically when dementia is the cause.

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Things Fall Apart

Have you ever - and I’m sure you have,
Woken in the night in a strange bed
And wondered – where the hell am I?

And have you sometimes forgotten
Why you came into another room,
And not known the reason why?

Or maybe it’s all the nagging worries
That get wrapped up into a single one
In front of your mind like a buzzing fly.

As for the names, faces and places,
Sure, we all forget some ones at times,
But not enough to make us want to cry;

With those missing hours in every day,
when your memory is now slipping away
To the silent pool of the minds decay.

And when each dying moment becomes
Confused with the sound of a ticking clock
Do you realise it’s yourself that’s stopped?

For when there is no more of anything
We’ll finally find that the clock has lied
And the calendars gone out with the tide.

© D G Moody 2024






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Written on 2024-07-20 at 17:28

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Sameen The PoetBay support member heart!
Very 'Once in a Lifetime'. I love it
2024-07-22


one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
it makes me want to cry, reading this. the inevitability of it.

You write of this so clearly, almost without emotion. The emotion comes later, to the reader. to me.

I'm not sure that makes sense.
2024-07-21


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Based on what I've seen, dementia is sneaky. Those it takes seem not to realize that they've been taken and time has stopped.
2024-07-20


alarian The PoetBay support member heart!
Yes consciousness losing its faculties disrupted with outside detached from the present filled with pain and fear
I am not ready to accept that
2024-07-20


Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
Ha! Bravo. I like this, Dougie. Yes. Of course that has happened. I'm sure everyone encounters these moments in life. And no-one could contest that dementia is the most awful of diseases.
Conscious/Unconscious: Did you realise that, as everything has a frequency, during one cycle our brain is 'off' for a minute period of time. BUT, add all those 'off' periods together and we must ask ourselves: Where are we when we are off? The periods of consciousness are interspersed with those of unconsciousness, so whilst consciousness seems to be fluid and consistent, so, in the 'off' state, that too might seem consistent???
B&L, Allen
2024-07-20