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Newspaper headlines capture my eye
"Alzheimer's deaths soar, research funding lags"
"Camp gives teens respite from Alzheimer's"
I cry.
I ache.
I wish.
Links to my family
severed by time
by distance
by disease.
Part of me yearns for proximity
to help
to connect
to understand.
But closeness will not stop
a disease that shows not mercy.
Money will not stop
a disease of creeping time.
Love will not stop
the slow decay of inevitability.
Guilt will not heal
the broken connections
of a family
fragmented
long before the invasive disintegration
of memory,
of hope,
of dreams,
of soul.
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