Dec 2023
GRANDMA TELLS OF MEETING GRANDPA
and there he was
coming up my asphalt path
and my knees going weak
at the sight of him
and his hair
blowing about in the air
and my heart
ablaze with happiness
burning me down to the ground
and I said
to myself
says I
that man is
going to be
my husband
and now
50 years later
he still is
as if death
could never touch
either of us
and my heart breaking
at just
the very sight of him.
*
She had dementia and could not recognise her own kids but would tell the nurses this over and over again or any visitors who happened to pass by. Her husband had been dead ten years by this time but the dementia hid his death from her and she lived forever in the first seeing of him.
and there he was
coming up my asphalt path
and my knees going weak
at the sight of him
and his hair
blowing about in the air
and my heart
ablaze with happiness
burning me down to the ground
and I said
to myself
says I
that man is
going to be
my husband
and now
50 years later
he still is
as if death
could never touch
either of us
and my heart breaking
at just
the very sight of him.
*
She had dementia and could not recognise her own kids but would tell the nurses this over and over again or any visitors who happened to pass by. Her husband had been dead ten years by this time but the dementia hid his death from her and she lived forever in the first seeing of him.
