Sink Side Songs

Sink Side Songs

I sat holding your hand

when the music started.

You seemed to listen.

I don't know where
 the notes took you, 
but I remembered

hearing you sing while

 you did the dishes.

It was really humming

with some la de da's and

de de dum's thrown in.

Begin the Beguine,

a song about memories,

was one of your favorites.

I still think of you

whenever I hear it.

This poem was inspired by a prompt on The Slow Forget, a website started by J.Lynn Sheridan to share experiences with Alzheimer's Disease and dementia through poetry. Join us by writing or reading.

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Baby's Blues

This was one of the first poems I wrote as I began this journey of writing poetry. Even though my mother had died several years earlier, her loss through Alzheimer's disease was one of the first topics that came out in my poetry. I am the youngest in my family and my mother often introduced me as the baby. When I got old enough to roll my eyes at that introduction, she would remind me I would remain the baby, no matter my age. By the time she died, she no longer had that memory.

Baby's Blues

You said I'd always be your baby.
Now, you ask if I'm your sister.
You say I'm not your daughter.
You no longer know me,
but I'll always be your baby.