You're a thief. There's no cure for you, there's no way out of your grasp, there's nothing can stop you. Nothing but pain is what you leave behind. You're not a disease, but a syndrome. People never realize how much the human mind is worth until they meet you. You suck.
You take some of the best humans of out this world. You took mine when I had just gotten her back. I will forever wish you didn't exist. You took our time, our happiness, our sleep, and her mind. You suck.
You're not a completely selfish syndrome. You gave us sleepless nights, anger, heartache and fear. You suck.
You make grandparents forget the names of their family. You make them think they are trapped in their own homes. You are a reason grandparents don't get to come to their grandchildren's graduations and weddings. You hurt everyone that you touch and wreck their family's worlds. You suck.
You make people go weeks at a time without sleep because they fear the moment they close their eyes their precious family member — who's sanity you stole — will wake up and thinks she's in a place that isn't so safe, and if they aren't awake they won't be able to assure them that they are safe. You suck.
You have done a lot of things to people and taken a lot of things from people. But I hate to inform you, there are some foundations in people you will never be able to change.
She was an island all her own in a sea of people who never matched up to her beauty. You couldn't take that away.
There never was, never has been, and never will be another human on this earth as uniquely beautiful as the woman who owned the mind that you stole. You're a thief, but you never could steal her beautiful soul. Her mind may have quickly faded but her heart and soul still could move mountains even after she has been gone for a few years.
There were days where she thought I was the devil, but the days where I was her angel outweighed any time she held anger toward me just because you were taking away her life. I've never been a critically acclaimed singer. I've had numerous critics, but they've never exalted my singing voice, except for that beauty of a woman who all she wanted was me to sing her to sleep. She had an amazing way of doing that, taking your insecurities and making them fade away to the furthest corners of your mind. I never had to wonder if I was good enough, because no matter how angry you made her, her spirit was one that always lifted those around her up at the end of the day. You never took that precious thing from her.
You didn't take her good from goodbye.
I already (painfully) admitted that there is no stopping you. You haunt your victims lives until their ultimate end, and you also torture the people who you leave behind for years and years to come. In her final days, you took her ability to respond. Her communication, however, you never took. Holding her hand, I told her I loved her, and after she squeezed back, I kissed her forehead and told her that I loved her, and said our final goodnight. There is so much pain in losing her, but in her goodbye to the world, there is beauty, and dementia — you will never take that away from her, or the world. She taught her kindness to her seven children and always growing number of grand, and great-grandchildren. Yes, dementia, you have given us fears of having your evil powers control our mind, or passing them on to our children, but we can only pray to pass on the personality points that she gave us. You will never be able to steal that from us.
Not so delightful dementia, here's a few more words for you:
You may have stolen the mind of one of the best people to walk this earth, but you never could steal the beauty of who she was. Her memory will never be forgotten, even if you steal my mind too.
Dementia, you suck.
Sincerely,
A girl who you stole from.
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Kiley Henry
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