Smothered Synapse

A hollow emptiness of days and hours
has heightened Jane’s dependence on my love.
Now spaniel like, she dogs my every move –
craving attention. Fine – but anger lowers!
Coupled with loss of virtual time and place,
tactful suggestion meets with baleful stare,
incomprehension borne – barely aware –
withdrawn into a cranial carapace.
Dear paranoid, she tediously recounts
a dialogue of shifting thoughts and mood,
where ‘people’ mock her with uncalled for taunts,
depriving her of peace and certitude.
Yet still in company she smiles and glows,
through smothered synapse pathways no man knows.

(May 2019)
Author – Mr John Burman

[Author’s note: These sonnets chronicle the inevitable and wretched decline in my wife’s cognitive function due to Vascular Dementia from my viewpoint as her loving carer. JHB]

NB: Dementia Sonnet 6 is personal and it will stay within the pages of Dad’s private book.

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