The woman, a nest of grey,
Takes you down to Chelsea Bay.
She stories you, and every time,
Mentions her garden, offers a lime.
A pile of words, so interspersed,
Grows so large, she loses sight of the first.
You scale the sentences, smile in hand,
Laughter, reveals, accusals grand.
She tells you, think differently, make circles of these lines
Use all the pieces of this fruity life, don’t dare discard the rind.
If minds had hands, as pontificate in tandem,
you’d hold hers steady, sliding addendum to addendum.
Then, saying goodbye, she extends once more a lime.
Forgetting, all too quickly, you’d already declined.
This is about my friendship with someone who suffers from dementia.
