Until the World Stands Still

Slowly, oh so slowly,
She began to fade away
It seemed so very gradual
Until that fateful day

Off the bus, I ran inside
To find my mother there
A box of tissues by her side
Why did she look so scared?

“We need to talk,” she said to me
And so I took a seat
And when I heard the painful news
My heart, it skipped a beat

She told me what the doctor said
About what lay in store
She said that she had Alzheimer’s
Like her father’d had before

I threw myself upon the ground
as tears streamed down my face
The only thing I knew to do
Was run far from that place

So run I did, and run I do,
and run I always will
From all my problems, every day,
Until the world stands still