The Fading Away

the disappearing I was finally able to go home from so many problems of various kinds in a world, not at ease with itself. I worried about her. She had been left alone and was not of a social disposition. As the plane came in for a landing, I wondered if she sensed my nearness? It was late, no busses were going to where I was going booked into a hotel until morning. On the bus, I was edgy; what if she had forgotten me? I saw her playing with children outside the house she didn’t see me when I called her name, she didn’t hear me. A man came up and asked if I was lost, no not at all I used to live here; I had a dog. The man looked sideways at me and tried to remember he looked confused and frightened and walked away.