~ Author Unknown ~

Please grant my visitors tolerance for my confusion

Forgiveness for my irrationality

And the strength to walk with me

Into the mist of memory my world has become

Please let them take my  hand and stay awhile

Even though I seem unaware of their presence

Help them to know how their strength and loving care

Will drift slowly into the days to come

Just when I need it most.

Let them know when I don't recognize them

That I will... I will

Keep their hearts free from sorrow for me

For my sorrow, when it comes,

Only lasts a moment, then it's gone

And finally, please let them know

How very much their visits mean

How even through this relentless mystery

I can still feel their love

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Alzheimer's Poem for a Funeral
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by Dick Underwood 2010 ©

You didn't die just recently,
You died some time ago.
Although your body stayed a while,
And didn't really know.

For you had got Alzheimer's,
You failed to comprehend.
Your body went on living.
But your mind had reached its end.

So we've already said, "Goodbye",
To the person that we knew.
The person that we trully loved,
The person that was, "You".

And so we meet again today,
To toast your bodies end.
For it was true and faithful,
Until right at the end.

And so, when we remember,
We'll think of all the rest.
We'll concentrate on earlier,
And remember all the best.

For in the real scheme of things,
Your illness wasn't long.
Compared to all the happiness,
You brought your whole life long.

We think of you as yesterday,
When you were fit and well.
And when we're asked about you,
It's those things that we'll tell.

And so we meet in 'membrance,
Of a mind so fit and true.
We're here to pay our last respects
To say that, "We love you".

Dick Underwood 2010©
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