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
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