Beyond Memory Poem by FABIYAS M V

Memory plays ‘hide-and-seek’.
Mind is a sorry seeker in this game.
A doctor prescribes to cure ‘the void’.
It’s a learned hypocrisy.

Words clash one another on Mrs.Pathu’s
tongue and fall down meaninglessly.
Infancy is reborn in the wet
shade of her Alzheimer’s.

Memory sets in her present
and rises in her past.
Intermittently falling beams
glare in her eyes.

She bobs up and down like the jetsam
on the waves.
Now, life announces
its retrieval in doleful tones.


(Published in Literary The Hatchet (Issue 9) by Pear Tree Press, USA)