Apr 2018
My mind is fading
The dust is settling in
It suffocates me
I want to say I love you
But dementia won’t let me
The dust is settling in
It suffocates me
I want to say I love you
But dementia won’t let me
This is a poem that follows tanka and is written for my grandfather who passed. His dementia made him so angry he was unable to tell us he loved us near the end. Even so, we knew
