Ivory Palace

• Artist: Elda-Chan
• Description: Written for the 2007-2008 edition of my school lit mag. Inspired by my aunte.
  Advanced Critique Encouraged
• Date: 07/15/2008
• Tags: alzheimers potery lifeanddeath memmory

Ivory Palace

Alzheimer’s is the mind crumbling away
While the shell stays
Whole, untouched, unaffected
As it drains all sense of
Who you are
What you were

She died that way
The disease decaying Her mind
Butchering Her spirit
But leaving Her body intact

Where was the Woman who’d
Captivated my heart
With Her wax elephants
And velveteen bears?

Reduced to tears
Because She can’t recognize
My face

She’d lived in an Ivory Palace

What was really a
Second story apartment
In a worn out building
With stairs She could
Barely climb

But to Her it was a Palace
With sprawling lawns and
Bejeweled turquoise peacocks
Replacing cracked, grey sidewalks
Where dirty sneakers played

Cracked
Like her mind had become
Shattered
Into a million tiny pieces

Her Ivory Palace would
Fade away
Only to be replaced by
Vacant Hospital walls
That She could no longer imagine
Away

Comments

[Athanisus]

That is excellent and I truly feel for I as I have lost people to the dreaded disease as well. It is a fate worse then death, tis it not?

[kat_luvs_u]

Very Deep. I know how you feel in a way and it just breaks your heart doesn't it?

[HolySonata]

It's emotional and you bring such vivid details into the poem. I enjoyed it very much.

[FaithEmblem]

While I can't relate to this poem, you've written it in a way that even if someone can't relate to it, they will still hold some sympathetic emotion for this saddened woman they'll never know.
I like your poetry surprised Second one I've read.

[Zef]

Very Nice. I liked reading it the whole way.

[Miss Liza]

That's brilliant, well done.