The Poet’s Dementia

Patsy Starke
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readNov 21, 2017
dementia-bbc.com

I write as though I live in the now,
because that is all I know.

Words elude me and I,
can’t remember what I wrote.

Thoughts inside me,
trying to find the verse,
I wrote you when we met.

When I no longer know my name,
or what you meant to me,
Read the poems I wrote to you,
that are trapped inside me still…

Patsy, 2017

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Patsy Starke
Poets Unlimited

Registered Nurse, Transgender Woman In a lifelong transition, Parent, Grandparent, Normal every day run of the mill person, realizing my place here.