Do you Remember

 Do you Remember (Aka There's the Joke)

By Rosemary Clarke

Agencies send you out to clear
Backlogs that pile up year by year
Thrown in at the deep end
Offices now on you depend
You have few moments to take over
Or become someone else's cover.
You have your job, enjoy your day
Go out with friends, life is OK.
You live your life don't make a fuss
And then you're hit by the evening bus.
Into hospital, you quickly go
While time stops still, your life's on slow.
You sleep most of the day and night
Black eyes, cut knees a nasty sight.
But worse of all, and such a pain
It's totally messed up your brain!
Memory has more or less gone
You've little past to look back on.
Remember things through other folk
Your life is now beyond a joke.
Mum gets you up for dinner and tea
'Cause you'd forget to eat you see
And even now when she has gone
The damage still it lingers on.
No left no right no places names
For to your brain, they're all the same
It takes you years to find your way
Forget the time, the date or day
Amass says to find a place
One that stands out, to make your base
But it is hard to label all
It nearly drives you up the wall!
The pain it never goes away
In your head, it's there to stay.
If you don't have all food in sight
You forget it and have a fright
A moldy mess it becomes soon,
So then you tidy up the room.
And while all of this troubles brewing
You have forgotten what you're doing!
And this is part of everyday
As you can see, it's not OK.
But while I have friends like Nat and Jane
I know my life won't be the same
Need so much help to get along
But they're helping me to be strong.

Copyright Rosemary Clarke