Alzheimer's

As thoughts begin to seep from porous brain

Dark matter fills old memories, now dissolved.

Familiar faces fading without names,

like sugar crystals melting in the clouds.

Books once adored, now read through furrowed brow

While worm-words twist and turn upon the page

There seems no favoured stories to be found

Just sentence snakes that hiss and fuel your rage.

A moment from the past appears. A cure!

But fine like dust, it lifts into the air

You try to catch, but then forget it’s there

Another memory gone. Ephemeral.

Alone, you face the blankness of the dark

and wonder when the nothingness will start.