Alzheimer’s is not a pretty site,
It has no age that it affects
It can affect the young and old.
It takes a caring old lady into someone you don’t know.
As time passes things get worse and the sweet old lady is no longer there.
She is gone, she is someone you don’t know, and no longer is caring
But a stranger, empty soul, empty eyes looking at you
No longer can communicate their needs
Back to childhood without a voice
Their needs are strange and hard to understand
As time goes on they forget to how to walk,
Their communication is gone,
They cry in frustration
They cry out in pain
They know they are a stranger
And that you’re a stranger to them
Things can never be the same
Things have changed
Looking into her eyes now they look at peace
The pain, sorrow and the fight has end
They join loved ones before
You are left to wonder
When can I see them again
The whole them, not a stranger
The person you knew
The one you call a second Mommy
The one that stood there and stood for you
No more an empty soul but the woman you once knew
A younger version of the old lady you once knew
A younger you that your grandma once knew
Someday both of us back together again
We have made ourselves whole once again.
Two souls young again
No more troubles of this World
But eternity to spend together
No more Alzheimer’s and no more pain
Those that were are put to rest
A New beginning for eternity
Dedicated to my grandma Alberta Delbert
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