...free from Alzheimer’s.

Between four & eight years

they reckon.

Stages? about seven they say

they talk of quality time

Whilst I still remember

I might remove my mattress

and buy a coffin

sleep in it every night

so when I fail to wake

just close the lid

and lower me into

that dark deep

to sleep until the last day

until I hear that final trump

then head for home

home at last and free 

from the confines of time

and free from Alzheimer’s.