She sees herself as any typical five year old - despite being eighty

The constant nagging and mummy calling of a five year old are not alien to her 

Sometimes, you can hear her say, ‘ dada’ 

This she does like a wee bairn

Sometimes she weeps relentlessly

She lashes out fiercely when you try changing her clothes

Sometimes she sits on her chair looking so distant

Sometimes she mimicks a chiming bell

She wears unmatching shoes and socks

She doesn’t recognise her family and friends anymore

She doesn’t recognise herself either

People think that she is an arduous person

But Margaret is having a tough time

Beneath the grim cover of Alzheimer’s, is the same old lovely Margaret

Yearning ceaselessly to be understood.