Alzheimer’s

You weaved a

Pernicious web

Plundered her

Memories

Smothered her

 Voice

Emptied her

Soul

 

Muddled her

Mathematical mind

That could recite

A hundred phone numbers

From memory

Like lyrical poetry

 

Made it impossible

To tell

Day from night

Or recognize

Our faces

Or even recollect

Her own name

 

You plunged her

Into a thoughtless void

A black hole

Of nothingness

 

That consumed her

And us

Watching her helplessly

Succumbing slowly to your

Silent cruelty

Alzheimer’s!