as memory slips away
as memory slips away
suddenly but gradually almost without notice or warning
memory begins to slip away a brief hesitation a lost look
familiar rooms or known hosts with a confusion adorning
a once aware face a display greeting the pages of a book
read and reread again discovered new named characters
in strange lives and situations unseen or imagined before
slow minutes of memory recovered now mere caricatures
slide into the life of limitations settle deeper into the core
gentle nights to awaken from to places of loud confusion
hands that held gestured or caressed are now withdrawn
expressions of concern come yet mixed up in the illusion
not coerced and left unimpressed a dispersed wisp gone
watching helpless from outside at the soft turmoil within
as the eternal downward glide is subtracting pieces of sin