Life can change in a single second, altering lives forever,
One thing happens and a chain of events moves far beyond.
We have a most powerful and amazing gift, it is the brain,
This is a mechanism that is at the same time most fragile.
In the blink of an eye everything we know can be unknown,
An accident, so fast to be struck with trauma to our minds.
Our time may be over and we don’t even know what’s happened,
We die that fast or even worse that we live without knowing.
Not enough understanding of the simple thoughts that hide,
A love that can remember almost everything but you are not there.
When you don’t remember me as you did only a moment ago,
I remember all things for you, we are now strangers,
We have a choice, you’re alive and we can together start over.
Keith Garrett
keithgarrettpoetry 
“When you don’t remember me as you did only a moment ago,
I remember all things for you, we are now strangers”
One of the hardest things a person will ever have to do.
Thanks always
Love it
Thank you always
Saw this with my grandparents. My heart goes out to you and all who face this.
This poem touches me…so touching and so sad but in the end one must continue living and face life’s odds.
Thanks for reading, i have experienced this myself.
Yeah, I know. I can read it in between the lines.
Thank
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Yes. I DO like your style!
Thank you
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:46 PM, keithgarrettpoetry wrote:
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This is great..
Thanks for your thoughts
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:21 AM, keithgarrettpoetry wrote:
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Thank you very much for the follow. Following back.
Great writing! Keep going!
Interesting. Far better than the average internet poem. Can you rewrite that in less than 100 words?
I worry about Korsakov’s dementia/amnesia – which is like this – with my mother, so this touched me. Thanks for visiting Wagblog.
My mother in law has Alzheimers and this poem really fits her condition. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you for reading, there was that. also other ways and reasons we forget.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:54 AM, keithgarrettpoetry wrote:
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Thank you so much for following my blog and the ”like.” But I was surprise to see that you communicate only through poetry. May I ask why?
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This hit home for me. Very nicely said.
**wipes tear**
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I read this today and it moved me to tears. I know that it is a poem about illness and injury, but it resonated in other directions with me as well. In it I saw my grandmother and the person that used to love me.
Great stuff.