MIND AND BODY – BROKEN MIND

 

When does it start?

And how

Does someone flick a switch?

Is it like that?

There must be a beginning

Everything begins

This must begin with a cell

Just one dying

Then another

Cell by cell

Until it happens

And you notice something

Something

Not quite right

Names said wrong or forgotten

You dismiss it

But something’s not right

The one day

You see a look of vagueness

Of alarm

Then the realization

The person you have known and loved

For a lifetime

Is looking at a stranger

And the stranger is you

It’s only short lived,

The first time

But it happens again

Because cell by cell

It steals their mind

Steals their dignity

And takes away their personality

Perhaps the cruelest twist

Is the body stays healthy

As the brain is afflicted

And for you

There is no happy ending

When decay takes the mind

And for you

There is no redemption

For you there is

Only the hope you dare not mention

Hope of a merciful release

To have the one you love at peace