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The Dementia Years

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The Dementia Years

I watched him as with joyful abandon he walked

I heard gladly those enthusiastic tones as he talked

I love him with my whole heart, yet he does not know me anymore

He looks at me with fearful eyes, my love exits through an empty door

In the dusk and fading evening I noticed he was growing so weary

I held his stumbling frame, my disbelieving eyes became wet and teary

He was not the same, he was failing, the spark of life was extinguished

His once vibrant life was now treating him as a most unwelcome guest

He is there before me physically, but in a tangible sense he was gone

The dementia had struck quickly without warning, the battle had been won

Recognition has now long faded away, cruel confusion has taken its place

Worn eyes are etched with a distant memory struggling for the surface

Desperate for the light to illuminate the darkness of forgetfulness, of cried tears

Where precious memory is sadly chained to the dank walls of the dementia years.

Fr Patrick Brennan © 2016 all rights reserved

Talking with a parishioner whose husband had dementia for many years I wrote “The Dementia Years” I have tried to convey the cruelty of dementia that robs a relationship of the stability that comes from a common bond in sharing a life together. When one partner forgets who the other is, it is heart breaking. The words try to reflect this heart break.


Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-dementia-years.html



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