From Within
The circle …widens
Delusions …stirring
Wallow … swallowing
Reality …nightmares
Pursue …dreams of
Yesteryear …silenced
Forever …gone …the
Abyss … pulls
From within!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ September 27, 2013
The circle …widens
Delusions …stirring
Wallow … swallowing
Reality …nightmares
Pursue …dreams of
Yesteryear …silenced
Forever …gone …the
Abyss … pulls
From within!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ September 27, 2013
Obsessing thoughts
Through the day
Lady Blue keeps
Lucid Lucy away
Delusions pave
The road
To the abyss
Bitter and cold.
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ September 6, 2013
Memories …turn on …memory lane
Two steps further …promenade
Four steps back …cascading
Abyss … keeper …serenading.
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ August 11, 2013
Sitting still, frowning, starring
Boring holes in the floor
Unable …to distract you
Negative outcome …in store
Delusions … in the way
The same …day after day
One day follows another
In the abyss …I SHUDDER!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ April 19, 2013
Blink of an eye
Whispers of time
Thousands of light years
The Alzheimer’s climb
No cutting corners
Flat out …confusion
I’m aware … your limits
For me …no illusions!
Time runs … away
Memories … too
Alzheimer’s abyss
Consuming …you.
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 21, 2013
Like … broken glass
Memories …aren’t spared
Fall …in the abyss
A …NIGHTMARE!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 24, 2013
The abyss …gobbles them up
Few memories survive
Illusions …delusions …appear
The sum of all fears …has arrived.
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 15, 2013
The conductor …confusion
The trip to …abyss
The ticket …punched early
Wait …think about this!
Your thoughts … tangled
Faded memories …not clear
You didn’t order this, Mother dear
No one else going? You’d be alone!
One way ticket, forever postpone!
It’s not your choice
What’s happening to you
Let’s … wave the train
CHOO CHOO …LADY BLUE!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 8, 2013
If we can pull an invisible cord for truckers to honk as they pass, maybe we can choo choo the Alzheimer’s train to KEEP ON GOING, DON’T STOP FOR MOTHER! I’m just thinking!
Alzheimer’s …fine tuned
A running machine
I’m gasping for air
You’re angry …mean.
I’ll wait it out
You’ll come back soon
Away from the abyss
The lagoon!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 6, 2013
Cars race furiously
Around a track
First one …wins
The leader of the pack.
Alzheimer’s …a race
You don’t want to win
At the end of the track
The abyss …further in!
Copyright/ Sheila Grimes/ February 6, 2013