I watch her slowly

 fall from grace

Her body still

Her mind displaced

New memories 

no longer stay

they simply  

          just              

drift  a w    a         y

Like a mist around

a mountain old

that dissipates

as the dawn unfolds

She's there in body

but sparse of mind

Sometimes it's hard

to seek, and find

The vibrant woman

she used to be

The brightest bloom

of our family

has withered frail

Her petals shed

to drift away

like words unsaid

 

I remember you holding

my hand, so small

And running through

the grass, so tall

Towards the horizon:

A magical land!

Where time was a colourful

shifting sand

That paid no heed

to life or death

It simply lived

for every breath

And everyone

who made it there

Soared like birds

into the air

And weaved a rainbow

for all to see

So loved ones knew

 they, now, were free.

 

We never could make it

to that horizon far 

So I wish upon

the brightest star

When all around you

start to fade

You return to the place

where we once played

And there you'll reach

that magical land 

To weave your rainbow

in the colourful sand

?