Knowledge Is Power

To know is to enable

To see is to understand.

Life Is A Journey

We hold in our hands.

I feel a need to share.

To show the world I care.

To find others who listen.

To find others "out there".

It's what's "behind the curtain"

Unknown until we face.

That makes us feel uncertain

That scares us as we race.

Every nation, every state

Bears the challenges we face.

Four decades I had a front row seat

It took the last few to realize and "meet"

A contender for life and taking away

It's general name 'Dementia"

Once here, it plans to stay.

If I could turn back time

If today were yesterday

I'd have more ability to act

More ability to say:

It's a medical condition

As so many are during life.

Let's find the source

Let's enable and eliminate strife.

Why do you write?

What can you gain?

Good questions both.

The journey is my aim.

If I do not share

It means I do not care.

To not reach out

Is to refuse to see.

What's right in front.... of me.

We spent decades as one family

Until one person felt the need 

To "bring us down"

To tear us apart

To make life miserable

With each day's start.

Dementia is medical

There is a source to find

Right now all we believe

Is it's focused in our "mind".

When we respect 

Age as life steps

We'll care enough 

To learn the dance

The one where we 

Will move along life's path

What if, I ask, as is my way

If there were other players

On this life stage?

Medications or additives

Hidden in our foods?

None what we would choose.

When will someone

Take up that cause

Realizing we are what we eat.

We are how we're treated.

Our lives are in your hands.