are you ready to go?

These days are negatively numbered
there's no time and there's only time
one day soon your silence
will be permanent
and everything I don't know
I'll never know

It's amazing how we can hold
a whole hidden life inside ourselves
with answers to questions
no one ever thinks to ask
a history of adventures in our veins
that'll be forgotten
when the blood stops pumping

Sometimes I wish
you could live forever
not because you're happy
or you've got life left unlived
I'm just not not ready
for you to be gone

I have questions
that I'll never ask
and that your dementia
wouldn't be able to answer anyway
when your silence is larger
than any words you have left
and your biggest worries
are remembering to take your meds
and if there's enough milk in the fridge
for another late night coffee

These days are negatively numbered
there's no time and there's only time
and no matter how much the universe gives me
it will never be enough

© Indie Adams 2022