Dementia One: Go Back to Whatever You Were Doing

It’s so swift. This seizes you,
Flash of loss—push a button,
Turn your head or turn the page,

There! Just then, something missing—
But that’s wrong, since you didn’t
Sense it at all a moment

Ago. So its missingness
Emerged in your awareness
With it, and now, if you don’t

Keep composing text for it,
This text, to keep it in mind,
It will go missing again.

No, that was it. It’s gone now,
If you can’t feel missing it.