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wordancer Senior Member
since 2000-07-30
Posts 809VA 
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Again, I lost my keys today; I will not tell, cannot tell, it is not amusing anymore as I also wonder why I wanted to go to the store. (is it only short-term memory loss) a cloud drifts over gray endless space that fragile lace hidden behind the face as beginning confusion slowly spreads through the dark flights of thought Again, I lost another word today; frantically, my mind scrambles to say what it is that you do with two pieces of cloth to attach them together. (perhaps I should just give up) random blank spots emerge, subside and return again and again and again waves of knowledge rendered useless in misfiring of accidental links Again, I lost more of myself today; I know not what it is, what has happen, just something that is not right as loved ones look on in bewilderment. (at their grandmother who profoundly curses) a mime stands behind invisible walls frenzied palming of hidden switches inside horror as thought is translated to exterior gibberish that slashes pain Again, I was lost today; as I wandered out the door, to trek miles and miles of nothing in search for what I cannot see (will someone find me—please, let me go) the long dark night incessantly calls lost all is lost as inner identity departs now just a husk that wanders aimlessly in futile search for what is forever gone Wordancer, the one who dances with words. [This message has been edited by wordancer (edited 04-11-2001).] |
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2dalimit Member Elite
since 2000-02-08
Posts 2228Mississippi coast |
Sad, but you've expressed these emotions very well. Melton |
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Wesley the Blue Member
since 1999-09-02
Posts 426Forest Lake, MN, USA |
Wonderful job, I can totaly understand this poem, my grandfather has alsheimers or some similar disease, I can only imagine what it is like for him, I think you did a marvelous job of looking at it through that side of things. Keith every day is a new day with which we can change the world |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
Anyone who has ever visited a friend in the alzeimer's ward can empathize with you. Thank goodness it's just absentmindedness most of the time with the majority of us. Joyce |
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wordancer Senior Member
since 2000-07-30
Posts 809VA |
Oh my goodness joyce, my mind is fine…lol, at least I think so. It’s my narrator who is losing it. This was a writing exercise that I just recently did. The concept was to alternate different levels of reading thresholds between high and low reader accessibility to the understanding of poem. One of the thoughts that been floating around in my mind recently is Alzheimer’s Disease. Been trying to imagine how, as the disease progresses towards the end, if the person is cognizant of what they are saying and doing. If so, what a scary place it must be in their minds. Wesley & 2dalimit, thanks for the read and comments. WO [This message has been edited by wordancer (edited 04-11-2001).] |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
Great job on this, A very scary thing, may god spare us from this! Love, ellie A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails. |
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coyote Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 1077 |
Very well done. You effectively expressed those fearful feelings of uncertainty, and really "got into the person's skin", so to speak. Really had me wondering if it was you? Great job.  "I hate quotes, they suck!" |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
A very sad and powerful look into alsheimers. Well done. |
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Trillium
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
This is so well done! Something all of us fear as we grow older. |
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Red_Feather Member
since 2001-01-19
Posts 131The Vagabond Sea |
This was indeed well written. I have worked with the elderly and have seen my fill of such terror. There is a point when you can no longer tell how aware the person is of their own loss, but up to that point the anguish can be plainly seen. There was an old farmer who would sometimes ask me to kill him. He was a proud man who knew at the very least, that he was not who he used to be. I did not blame him, and in my mind it would have been a mercy. Very sad. One's not half two it's two are halves of one EE Cummings |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
Red Feather... situations like that truly make you think about the validity of mercy killing. Had an uncle who suffered an aneurym. It should have killed him but they got to him in time for life support... end result was that he was "completely" paralyzed except for his eyes and one finger. Mentally he was still there, physically he had nothing... after two years they finally took him off the life support expecting he would pass on... it took eleven years. If there is Hell on earth, that was it. Sometimes I just don't understand the medical world and their desire to hold onto nothing. Again, thanks for sharing your views, maybe some day they'll start to figure it out. Peace! |
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Brad Majors
since 2001-04-03
Posts 2647Georgia |
Yet another masterpiece |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
yes...indeed |
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