Where Are You? (Dementia)

Where have you gone?

Your disappearing

All though your still here

That you’ll forgot me

Fills my with fear.

I hold your hand

Look into your eyes

But no one looks back

And my heart dies.

All our yesterdays

Wiped from your mind.

I search for connections

To draw you back home

For a moment you’re here

Then you leave me alone.

My heart smiles because

I remember the real ‘you’

All the things you would say,

The things you would do.

Now recognition fails

Do you know who I am?

Or am I part of the dream

Your living in now,

Unable to share

Locked in somehow.

The sadness in my heart

To say goodbye twice

To have you here,

though you’ve gone,

Is a terrible price.

Aligning Within