Poem: Synonyms of Confusion

As you read this place yourself in the shoes of a person who has Alzheimer’s or any other type of dementia…
 
‘Synonyms of Confusion’
 
Hypothetically
speaking, this is all much
the same, but place yourself
within my daily mental disarray,
 
Confusion, confusions, confusing a mind,
mystified, conundrums of dementia affray,
perplexity, perplexing, at my every thought,
bewildered in bewilderment, I wander astray,
puzzlement, as I can’t understand what you said,
uncertainty, now grips me as my confidence is dead,
baffled, as I can’t regulate or restrain anything that I do,
understanding, of my illness completely defies your days,
misunderstanding, what you said, so misconstruction prevails,
disorientated, unsettled, mixed-up, all at sea, now that’s truly me,
incomprehension, lack of understanding, blankness, at what to say,
disorder, turmoil, chaos, disarray, all part of the conundrum declining into,
Alzheimer’s disease…
                                                            Barry...