Is It Alright To Forget

Lou Rogers

Most of us have spent a lifetime

Wanting to be able to remember more

Hiding our forgetfulness

Ashamed, as we strive to remember better

Little did we know

There might come a day

When our mind, infected with Alz disease

Would become relentlessly plagued with memory gaps

Continuously raveling away

Like the threads in an old favorite sweater

More and more tattered places

Showing up as the weeks and months fly by

More spots wearing thin

In the fabric of a, once, beautifully developed mind

Later, as the mind slowly crumbles and falls away

An awareness sets in…

The previously familiar landscape

Begins to appear in shambles

A gathering of the unfamiliar comes into view

Family members, close friends,

shapes, sounds… and even tastes…fade into oblivion.

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