When your love has dementia

Every day is full of a thousand crackling shocks to your brain

Each little snap is a realization that another small piece of him is missing 

When your love has dementia

Every day you search his eyes a thousand times

Longing for a glimpse of him so you’ll know that all is not yet lost

When your love has dementia

Every day you try to adapt and adjust to the rapid fire blows to your heart

Helping him, and yourself to ease into this new life, trying not to long for the old one too much

When your love has dementia

You run as fast as you can, doing anything, everything, to keep ahead of the sadness

Because the worst thing you could do, would be to let him see the sadness in your eyes.

When your love has dementia

You think that if you can just love him enough

He won’t go.