What is Life?

What is life? My brain confused,
In-most feelings I can’t define;
Words in mind I can’t relate,
Thoughts so blurred, no longer mine.

What is life? The wind I feel -
Sun so warm upon my face;
Pavement’s dusty and glare so great -
Physical feelings I can embrace.

What has life? Now for me?
Heart so leaden, I feel so drained;
Mem’ry withers and fades so fast,
This a life for me ordained?

My life will ever happy be -
If I know your love is there for me.

18 June 2017

This is a sort-of sonnet for all those fearing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a common form of dementia.  A likely increase in the disease, as more elderly people live to a greater age, is likely to put an increasing strain on governmental and local finances – a factor authorities (government and other) appear reluctant to cover in an adequate manner.