On Amyloid Protein
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* Danish Zaidi

*   dementia
*   poetry
*   neurology

> I watch your eyes tracing my face.
> 
> Furrowed brows suggest blurred image.
> 
> Slow, slow, not in haste—
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> Mine is a forgotten visage,
> 
> Erased like tales of the village,
> 
> You fondly shared, from where you came.
> 
> I watch your eyes tracing my face,
> 
> And pray you will recall my name.
> 
> Your calloused hands will think of mine:
> 
> “We have held these some other place!”
> 
> The embers of your past will flame—
> 
> And I will hear and help to heal,
> 
> Waiting for signal or for sign.
> 
> Slow, slow, with hands to feel—
> 
> As I carry onward, blind,
> 
> Hoping that which I seek, I find.

## Footnotes

*   Competing interests None declared.

*   Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.