Amnesia

I cannot address you as Mother
For you don't even know who I am
You now live your life as another
"I'm your daughter, remember me Ma'am?"

I want to express all my anger
At the injustice of a life so unfair
But your only response is no answer
Vacant eyes that continue to stare

They say Alzheimer's is your affliction
And it's bringing tears to my eyes
As you lay there with no recognition
And I watch as your personality dies

Your state is an injury bleeding
A wound that you can't even feel
But as long as your mind is receding
My torment can not ever heal

As each chapter I finish reading
As your life draws to terminal close
At times I wish that with Godspeed
Would come your final, restful repose

For it's killing me as well to witness
Your inexorable march into death
This disease is so relentess sometimes
I pray you could draw your last breath

For the mother I loved has departed
Only echoes of her in your brain
In memory she lives, but brokenhearted
I mourn thoughts that no longer remain