In Your Memory

With each year that goes by, I dedicate this day to honoring your memory

with dessert before dinner, chocolate milkshakes or vanilla ice cream cones,

a bottle of the raspberry water you kept stocked in the cellar,

and I write. I try to remember the time before we lost you, before you lost yourself,

before each visit was a guessing game of when and where your brain would be

before the beginning of the end, when you were still fully you.

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In loving memory of my grandfather, written on the 11th anniversary of his passing (December 3).

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