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A Long Journey
by Robert (Bob) Moore

For 15 years I watched my dad
forget the life which he once had
hour by hour, and day by day
the memories, just went away

A man of strength, and a hero too
forgetting things that he once knew
to fix a car. or carpentry
electric, plumbing, photography

The books he knew, the words to songs
people’s names, and where they belonged
who they were, and what they did
as down that slope, he slowly slid

Sundowners, that was a stage
he thought he was locked in a cage
he just wanted to get outside
the more mam stopped him, the more he tried

Mam did her best to keep him home
but now and then he’d start to roam
sometimes neighbours brought him back
or we’d search the streets, his steps to track

Time came for him to slip away
although we wished that he would stay
it was over, and we all knew
there was nothing more that we could do

And so we gathered to say goodbye
to hug each other, and to cry
we knew his final battle done
and I am proud to be his son.

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