Melting Snow

When Mom was alive, before the Alzheimer's took her mind, we went to numerous garage, yard, and junk sales. At each one you could find something strange, weird, or unusual. At a garage sale, held my one of my mother's friends, I found a slide rule. The price was $1.00, so I purchased it. I don't have to make up a back story for this because the lady, whose name I can't seem to remember, said it was her husbands. The gentleman had died and she was selling some of his stuff so that she could move into a smaller place. I don't know why I purchased it then, but I'm glad I did because I think it would make a nice object to use in a story.

I could hear evanescent echoes
of yesterday
in her lonely tears
each time she spoke her parents' names.

I hate the disease
that robbed her of her memories,
and robbed me
of her presence.

It was,
as if she walked down a narrow,
cobweb filled corridor
unable to see an exit.

Sometimes
silly words came out of her mouth
and we laughed,
but at other times
I heard fear in her voice
when she describe people
that weren't in the room.

As the disease progressed,
her memories
and life faded
passing into another realm.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1654
Pick any subject and answer the questions What, Why, When, How, Where, and Who.

Alzheimer's Disease

What is this affliction
that stole my mother's personality
and memory?
Alzheimer's Disease!

Why?
It is a plague
of the aged brain.

When?
I don't know the date
of its inception,
but later I remembered
early incidents that suggested
there was a problem.

How?
It consumed,
braincell by braincell,
her memory
and personality.

Where?
Las Vegas, Nevada.

Who?
Marie Pearl Newland Darbe Sisk.