The debilitating curse of dementiaA Poem by COLLYMORESelf-explanatoryBy
Stanley Collymore It’s extremely hard trying to remember events from the past; and even the faces, names and common situations surrounding the numerous people and places I once knew familiarly and previously, of course, in an instance could fully and happily retell their diverse history and personal stories have, alas, now obviously and firmly abandoned me as well. And it’s not just the past, whether recent or distant, that is consistently a recurrent problem, since the present too is at times a complete mystery to me also, as overall I feel entirely powerless in trying to make some sense of it all and hopefully decipher with what residual clarity that my involuntarily befuddled mind can muster what is basically going on, and how come that my very existence that beforehand was wholly positive and stimulatingly vibrant - and all this in a human model which was itself completely and inspiringly compos mentis could, in effect, become so disastrously debilitating as what it now most unquestionably is! And in this process of doing so actually create a puzzling scenario where this prolonged dementia that I’m now suffering from, effectively in absentia of my genuine presence rendering me a non-person, has literally and inevitably it culpably seems, thrown my extant human existence into oblivion. ©
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November 2019. Author’s
Remarks: Dementia is among, and
increasingly so, the major takers of human life both physically and
psychologically within the United Kingdom. And the debilitating effects that it
disastrously and apathetically inflicts in the most unceremonious manner on all
of its hapless victims is quite dreadful and disheartening to see. And while the so far
known causes of dementia are too detailed to be outlined here - please do your
own research on this matter - it’s none the less worth remembering or else initially
acquainting one’s self with the clear-cut evidence that the largely sedentary lifestyle,
quite disgusting cases of obesity coupled with a marked lack of intellectual
agility across Britain do collectively play a critical and substantial part in
the rampant and devastating nature of this widespread and killer disease. © 2019 COLLYMORE |
StatsAuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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