Dear Mum,
Almost a year has gone by since I held your hand and whispered my last goodbye to you. I kissed your cheek and fixed your hair but you didn’t answer me.
I don’t want to think of that morning, the sun shining through the window, the sound of the birds singing yet, you were still sleeping.
Dementia took you away, but sometimes a little of you would come back to me. I remember those times and they make me smile.
I feel you around me, especially when I am shopping, I can almost hear you and then I realise when I turn around, you are not there.
It has been so hard to find the real you to grieve, but I have seen you in my dreams.
You turned around and smiled at me before you walked up the stairs, I couldn’t reach you but I knew you had come back to me for a little while.
My glamorous, beautiful, brave Mum.
My heart will always hold you now and forever.
Sheila x
Sheila x
24/09/2026
