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Early onset Alzheimer's

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The Autumnal]”
― John Donne,

The blue is missing from the sky today
the trees have no leaves
outside it is so cold
the wind is cruel to me.

There is a person
in front of me
i don't know who it is.

I remember playing out
with my sisters 
with a skipping rop
e.

It is cold inside too,
that lady told me it is morning,
that is why I stretch and yawn.

The lady said I had a visitor
i was frightened to ask:
'What is a visitor?'

The world outside is very big
and it looks very unfriendly to me.

I remember when everything was nice
and our family had tea together.
I wonder if i am asleep,
this is not my home,
so why am I so alone?

Image result for poor family drinking tea 1930s

 

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 10th Apr 2026 09:26

A touching, kind poem, John, though still chilling in its reality.

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