Back in time some five decades ago
As a young man then in his mid twenties
Long before time did become his foe
He was brave in the heat of the battle
Where courage in abundance he did show
In his locked room all now by him forgotten
His wife and family he does not even know
Alzheimers has stripped him of his memories
Even those who were near and dear to him he does not recognize
The nursing home staff every day he sees often
Are people who are strangers to his eyes
Fifty years ago he was a hero
Back then many his praises did sing
Now he is one of the town's forgotten
And he does not remember anything
A balding gray haired man in his late seventies
By the staff his bedroom door kept locked all of the time
For awhile admired by many as a hero
But this is going back to his physical prime.
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