Lost Memories Poem by LeeAnn Azzopardi
Lost Memories
Soon, you start forgetting names
Then the way home
And leave the food out to be spoiled
Can't recognise yr car or yr home
You repeat....
You repeat...the same stories
And then, get angry when you are told
You already told them
Over and over
You start forgetting birthday
And when someone dies
Complaining they haven't called for a while
You argued with yr children; thinking you are prisoner
Then, you become too much for them
And you are sent to a home
Never to be visited because it was too much to bear
The agony in you
One day, you go to sleep
And never wake up
Then, yr children collect yr things
knowing you are in a better place
They wished they saw you more often
But it's too late for regrets
LeeAnn, you captured and depicted the true facts about Alzheimer. So brilliantly and beautifully crafted and presented. My aunt is at the early stage of Alzheimer. It is frightening but we have to be more gentle with our loved ones who are suffering from this disease.
Alzheimers took my mom. I'm very familiar with these final (cruel) steps to an early end. Though I visited her often in the home, you captured the decline perfectly
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/28/2026 3:14:19 PM # rel_20260827T145718Z_a0f1bd3
A great poem. To my favorites.