Because He Loves You So Deeply

Breakfast is forgotten by lunch Visits to the park never taken are added in error to the memory bank Like long overdue library books, recollections cannot be reconciled with his currently fuzzy realities The ones he diligently scribbles down daily in the notebook that sits by his chair The appointments and events; the upsets and resentments, all written, carefully, yet imprecisely in his inimitable, doctor-esque scrawl none that, truth be told, he can recall And yet....he remembers your name A face he's only seen on a smartphone screen, a face and a name that have planted seeds of happiness and hope for happiness, in the once fertile, now tired soil of his lonely imagination