A poem a day for 2013 - day 80 - This now. This now. This...

She has Alzheimer's
It does not have her
She will ask me the same question
Twenty more times today
And I will answer
Twenty more times
With the same smile
She will tell me
About something yesterday
Before I was born
I will listen
And learn the same something new
Again
Again
We will walk
I will tie her right shoe
At the same corner as before
Before
Before
Again
Again
She will kiss the same flowers
Touch the same trees
Before
Before
Before does not matter
Just this moment
This moment
And this
With the same smile
As before
Before
Again