Missing You

A poem for my uncle.

Missing you
Is like watching something happen
That you can't quite explain.
Like watching the clouds form under the rain.
It's like watching a breath,
Rise and then fall
Though you don't
Recognise me at all.

Remembering you
Is like looking back through time
Watching, listening
And smiling at what I find
Wishing we could just travel back
Pause this life and rewind.
I remember how happy
You were when you saw me
You weren't like other adults
Who'd sit and ignore me.

Watching you
Is like watching a shell of what you once were
Still wonderful, yet somehow broken.
I wasn't prepared
It happened so fast
One minute you're there
The next, you're my past.

Loving you
Is like seeing how the world spins round
Constant, never stopping
Not for one minute.
Rotating this life
And everything in it.
Now you're here
In body, not mind
I still see what you were
So lovely, so kind.
This disease is the devil
So evil, yet true.
But no matter what happens
I won't forget you.