Our grandparents live
only in our memories. When we go,
they go.
Why care if we’re forgot?
As if we never were?
I speak of myself, now:
Why do I care if I am forgot?
As if I never was, never
strove to overcome my limitations,
only partly successful, yearning yet afraid?
If truth be told, my heart is rusted
from underuse.
My children and grandchildren
know this. Perhaps
being forgot is not
so bad after all.
Nan, Common Threads, 2012