I am Losing My Mind

For Donna

Losing my mind

Will still intact
Desire to live, love
Act
Many years I held
Things together
Perfectly
Too perfectly

My house spotless
As my mother demanded
Strict on others
What was expected of me
Lived life
The good wife
Raised two boys
In a three level
On the West Side

In spite of his drinking
I kept it together
When I wed
It was forever
And ever

Now I am alone
Time ticking by
As my memory
Is swallowed up
Day by day

Strangers come to visit me
My son harasses me
No more money or
Keys to drive my car
Will is all I have
As power over my own life
Taken from me
By a power of attorney

My mind stripped down
The layers
Of cognitive reasoning
Short term memory
Being left behind

I am losing my mind
Hey someone
Help me find
It
Give me back what Alzheimer's
Has stolen from me