Walking With Dementia

Walking With Dementia

By Paul McCann

When he gets up in the morning , he begins to roam

He’s walking with dementia and very far from home

He’s looking for a car he parked just the other day

It could be round the corner a million miles away .

surrounded by emotions of people in his life  

some of them are his children ,

some of them are his wife,

some of them he recognizes but can’t remember who ,

he’s never really sure of who he might bump into .

He’s walking with dementia just as the sun goes down ,

He’s looking for that car he parked on the edge of  town .

The night falls down as he is left very far from home

Walking with dementia , somehow he’s not alone .