Try to remember the years that were tender
When youth was not a dying ember
Try to remember as brain cells surrender
Where thoughts are fodder for the blender
Try to remember the room you did enter
And why you’re there, that thread so slender
Deep in your memory are things that were friendly
If you can retrieve them and hold them steady
Things that were easy will now make you queasy
The strain alone can make you wheezy
Neural connections will give you perplexions
And thoughts of old are sad reflections
When was it last I remembered the past
That chasm now seems dark and vast
I see a face, the name I can’t think
It’s there on my tongue, right on the brink
Then tomorrow at noon it will suddenly emerge
A burst from my mouth as the planets converge
This gradual slow down I accept with grace
I know my brain has slackened its pace
The good side is I’m not plagued by unease
But can someone please tell me, where are my keys?