Nan

I have been thinking about my Nan a bit recently.  She died coming up to 8 years ago, and I loved her a lot.  She had dementia in her later years and I felt inspired to write this.

I had a memory once,
What it was I do not know,
But I know it was a good one;
for it's sweetness lingers on.
It is just out of my grasp;
like a shadow fading fast.
Oh I wish that I could find it once again.

Oh I do feel quite frustrated,
For the past I cannot recollect,
and the future is still quite unknown to me.
But I know it is a good one;
for I feel it's sweetness near.
Drawing ever closer,
To the world that I know here.

Each day is just the same,
Yet somehow I do not know,
For I live in the moment;
like a child.
And one day I will be a child again;
running free at last.
The constraints of this world;
then all past.