Space Walk

What a time to lose mental stability.

He was in space,
Outer space.
Once an astronaut in his mind 
but now he was gone
floating forever in Alzheimer disease or
was it some other malady?
Wondering in the only way
the disease allows you to wonder.
Lost.
With all the evidence pointing to
A man, a living man, surrounded
By dark matter, blackness,
weightlessness, stars, 
his suit the only thing preventing him from death
floating, floating further from everything
Like so many here on Earth.

Reviews

[Alfred Kukitz]

Thanks Benita for visiting. I have worked with these patients. The conversation are in non reason.

[Benita-Staebell M - KindredPoet]

very true you can explain things to them they don't understand then forget and then are fine the next day and worst the next my Mother is a Nurse so she works with different patients seems you have a passion and love for them it is heart breaking to me God bless you. You're welcome I enjoyed reading your thoughts and feelings thank you for sharing. Benita

[Benita-Staebell M - Kin..]

Very true and Powerful I have a old High school
Buddy and best friend her Dad Had dementia
and now it has gone into Alzheimer disease.


It is a very sad heart breaking disease
it has been hard for my friend it saddens me
as well her dad was a Pharmacy Doctor where
you buy meds at Drug stores but he is a different person
it changes you he wouldn't remember me but my friend and
I we talk a lot and were close she takes care of her parents
and I talk with her always good to have a friend who understands. :)


Thank you for sharing this heart wrenching piece and for
leaving your kind review and comment on my page.

Blessings. Benita

[Robert Strzalko]

Very powerful and a great ending.

[Alfred Kukitz]

Thanks Norman! As a nurse I worked with many of these patients. I always accepted what they said, conversed empathically and pleasantly. I often found these patients to enjoy the banter without reason's presence.

[Norman T]

This was such a graphic portrayal of senility. I have seen it so often.Although disturbing and traumatic for those close to them, the only consolation is that the the "sufferer" is usually unaware.
A moving and sensitively written poem. Thank you.

Norman

[Alfred Kukitz]

Thank you all for visiting. My mom too is inching toward that fate. 87 years old and her life wasn't so great.

[MomzillaNC]

Such a tragic tale… a very sad read.

Puts me much in mind of my gran, who languished 10 years in a nursing home with senile dementia. I visited her there almost daily, and watched as everyone and everything was forgotten… except her Jack. She never forgot her Jack, and hurried on to join him once he was gone (they were the topic of my poem, "Move On… Move On… "

[Alfred Kukitz]

A close friend of mine wife's has it. She's a sweetheart.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

like my dad...starting to float away....not quite alzheimers...but close...

i only can hope that suit protects him, at least for awhile.