The Clock
on the wall is ticking
Ticking my life away
Seconds turn into minutes
turn to hours
turn to days
The Sun
Slowly Sinking
Darkness creeping on the day
My thoughts, they roll and tumble
The day slowly fades to grey
Where have all the good times gone
Well they drifted so far away
How many memories
Will fade, fade away
My head
it is spinning
trying not to slip away
The world, becomes smaller
Nothing , nothings here to stay
No past
and no future
my mind, my mind in disarray
Recollections, of something
just what
I can no longer say
Where have all the good times gone
Well they drifted far away
How many memories
Will fade, fade away
My Head
it is empty
My self has gone astray
Wandering, in confusion
I have lost my way
Strangers
all around me
Names I cannot recall
Loved ones, now forgotten
Slowly into the void I fall
Where have all the good times gone
Well they drifted far away
How many memories
Will fade, fade away
Where have all the good times gone
Why did they drift far away
How many memories
Will I lose today?
The Clock
on the wall is ticking
Ticking my life away
Seconds turn into minutes
turn to hours
turn to days
Dementia Ticking
Dementia...a terrible affliction that I have had the misfortune to experience at close hand. The victim drifts away, little by little until all that is left is an empty shell. Family and friends are powerless and must learn to accept that their loved one is dying a little more each day.... and that there is nothing they can do about it. Dementia places an immense strain on all concerned and professional help is almost always needed..Relatives feel guilty and reproach themselves for putting their loved ones into care....although this eventually becomes inevitable. The afflicted live in their own world, with their own rules and their own reality and eventually fall into the void.