This Thief Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

No one gives you lessons in how to not feel sad.
We're never taught to deal with loss and grief
Complacency just starts to masks how life's turned really bad,
the life you knew now rendered to a thief.

This thief is silent, slow and cruel
Unseen and never kind
And mercilessly breaks each rule
To dominate ones mind

It starts by making simple moves
Forgetting this and that
A name, a place, a reason why,
where did I put my hat?

The light goes out, within their eyes
now burns a gentler hue.
The smile remains for anyone,
no longer just for you

Then soon it will annihilate
the person you once were.
Your character assassinate,
your thoughts now just a blur

oh clever thief, you take at will
and know that when you do
your victim will not even see
or recognise it's you


This thief of mind, this wrecking beast
Who steals the ones you love
You know they're gone but not deceased
But can't quite let go of…….