Aphasia, the quiet thief,
pilfers her words, leaving only
shadows. She grapples to find the fitting,
lost in a void. Her language, once fluent,
now splintered shards.
Labyrinth of thoughts,
expression
shattered.
Words scrambled, meaning slips,
sentences left dangling, thoughts meander
aimlessly. Her tongue forgets
the familiar,
silent are the echoes of
memory, fading
away.
Incomp
lete.
Confusion.
Names vanish.
She could no longer speak,
no word escaped her lips.
But one day she broke the silence,
softly murmured
.doG
"She’s doing well," the nurse said.
She just rearranges
the word.
Amanda Kluveld is a Holocaust historian and associate professor in history. She has written several non-fiction books and is an op-ed writer for a weekly newspaper in The Netherlands. Amanda is from a Dutch Indies family and is the first one to be born in the Netherlands.
Cover Art: Marc Chagall, L'écuyère, 1929
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