Dementia and leaving

• she knew before
• she knew

 

• she knew before

 

• she knew she knew
• the        gaps
• were there, but the

 

• leaps
• were easy
• trying to leave she never knew

 

• where the watch                the glasses       the car keys
• oh mum, we said, you never know
• we’d say, hurriedly, here

 

• while she leaned into the mirror with her lipstick
• we found her time            sight                      a way out
• into the wide world

 

• sometimes now she knows she
• knew        that we still do

 

• looks at us please across the      gap
• she knows we know we know and knew

 

• so we say the when and the what
• again      and again again we leave into

 

• the wide bright world while she stays
• dim                                        and she says
•          who to the mirror

 

 

Photo by Ria Alfana on Unsplash