Destination Nowhere

by Hellon   Apr 9, 2013


Destination nowhere
your brain's new address
dark tunnels engulf you
on the Alzheimer express.

The smile on your face
that faraway look in your eyes
living in a past of
days long gone by.

Feeling so alone
in this crowded room
days running together
encased in your tomb.

What do you think of?
in your beautiful mind
searching faces for answers
that you'll never find.

Memory Lane calls
you walk down it each day
without leaving your chair
in your mind of decay.

Tomorrow will come
this same game you will play
forgetting you played it
only yesterday...

@Hellon June 2007

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  • 12 years ago

    by Fading Memory

    Amazing !! tomorrow is just a song

  • 12 years ago

    by Maple Tree

    Judge Comment:

    When the subject of Alzheimer's is placed in a poem, to adorn the words with a beautifully flowing rhyme scheme is the perfect touch, this piece was flawless in a billowy rhythm, making it comfortable to read, for the message is bound to make the reader cry.
    It leaves you drenched in sadness, and yet the author added an elegant feeling for the poem itself.
    Alzheimer's is a train ride to nowhere and at the end, it's a wreckage, leaving the mind in devastation.
    I admire the angle of family to loved one inflicted.. and perhaps it's also displayed from start to finish, as the patient progresses with this tragic disease.
    I've read numerous poems about this subject matter and I have to say this is one that stands above the rest.

  • 12 years ago

    by Vic Johns

    Awesome poem !

    Sadly many people's lives are blighted by Dementia/Alzheimers in it's various debilitating forms and folk will find solace here with Hellon's brilliantly crafted eulogy to this terrible illness!

  • 12 years ago

    by Swallowing Tongues

    This poem is remarkable. can't stop reading it

  • 12 years ago

    by L

    I am not sure, but were this intentional?

    What do you you think of? <----- double You.

    in your beautiful mind
    searching faces for answers
    that you'll never find.

    Memory Lane calls
    you walk down it each day <--- the IT?
    without leaving your chair
    in your mind of decay.

    -- When I read this piece I got the impression the narrator was talking to someone who had alzheimer and the narrator observed that someone so well, while doing that the narrator narrates to the reader and it shows us how that someone behaved. . Good read.

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