Alzheimer's Mom

[SATYA Winkelman]

Role Reversal

by Satya Winkelman, M.A., C.P. (Author, "Through the Fire")

Sliding wordlessly
Into an exchange of roles,
She drops her little girl off at school;
Assisted Living, they call it.
Living?

The lost who can speak
Beg to get out.
And the child-Mother

Silently pleads:
"Don't leave me here".
Alone,
Driving home through a blinding rain,
The orphaned daughter

Allows the child within
To cry out in grief
Before she remembers:
Mother is still alive.

[Karen Martin]

Those who are there, or who have been there understand and feel what youw words say. I shared your words on my facebook page.

[Lyn]

Thanks for sharing that. I'm going through the early stages of this disease with my father-in-law. Tough to go through, and my thoughts are with you, but yes, you still have your Mother. I miss mine daily.

[Diana Daffner]

What a loving tribute to your mom and a reminder to me to so appreciate my own mother, alive and well at age 88.