Will it all go?
Decades of sociability,
Dancing to Glenn Miller’s music,
The funhouse laugh,
You have your mother’s smile?
Temporary lapses
robbing all normal habits
of appropriate conversation,
of money matters,
answering machines,
televisions, and
stoves.
Depression:
recollection of voids,
but hair in place,
clothes coordinated,
disposition-sweet,
charm intact.
Will it all go?
The charisma,
The humor,
The love?
Middle-aged hands
still grasping
you
to
stay? – Margo Singagliese