Purple

T’is the color of The Alzheimer’s Association

I don’t remember if they said how they chose

it, perhaps like wounded veterans, a similarity 

a connection to the mind boggling war of

a mind disease that makes one a prisoner

It is unjust, there should be treatments if not

cures!  We have men on the moon!  Why not?

To see a mind wasting away, a once brilliant

mind, though any mind should not have to go

this sad, horrific way.  WHY NO DRUGS?

No drugs to at least slow the disease, why no

drugs to cure the disease”  In ten years perhaps

a crisis as baby boomers start coming in 

in alarming numbers, Alzheimer’s, a disease

of aging  can bring the world to its knees 

Step up world, country, city, village, step up!

Check the statics and step up for yourselves

for your parents, for your kids, for your spouse

There is something array, something wrong

and the medical community is silent!