You Have Memories

You have memories to cherish of people you have met
And memories of people you would rather forget
But for as long as you live until your last night and day
Your good and bad memories with you will stay
But for those with alzheimer's how sad life must be
For us humans are lost without our gift of memory
Sadly the gift of memory with everyone until death does not last
The people who do not have a sense of presence or future or past
Of the praises of memory i feel happy to sing
As a gift to humanity a wonderful thing
Without memory the mind would be in disarray
Those who lose it perhaps cannot tell night from day
We all need the gift of memory without it we would be lost
But everything in life does come at some cost.