holes

[Tiger the Lion]

holes

who am I to wonder why
and wave good bye
or where it is I’m going to?

something feels familiar
about some things I do
but most of all I wonder

who are you?

darling, I’m your man
please sit and hold my hand
I'll do what I can
but you won't remember

who I am

holes big as tomorrow
have begun to open up
the holes of yesterday
all closing down

I will still be here
holding you, my dear
but there will be nobody
that you know around

darling, I’m your man
please sit and hold my hand
I know who you are-
what we did, and I still do-

It's OK to ask me
who are you?

I want to come here and disagree strongly with all of the people that want to pretty up the word holes . . . please don't change it. It is short, harsh, Germanic. It hits me just right for the experience of watching a loved one succumb to dementia . . .  plus "hole" translates into a lot of idioms that are useful and adjacent. . . hole in my heart, hole in my memory. Additionally, it has the feeling of something that could potentially begin and start small, but grow and grow, the way that diseases around memory loss tend to be progressive.

Guys, sometimes just a good plain word is best. Don't overthink this.

I wholly agree with VP. Sometimes a seemingly generic word can carry an enormous weight.