Leap of Faith Across the Memory Gap

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Leap of Faith Across the Memory Gap --- break ---

As the weather turns from cold to warm,
People around me seem unfamiliar,
It is as if I stepped out of time for a moment.
Now I know I have returned but nothing is quite the same,
I know their voices,
I know their names,
But can they really be the same?
Even worse than that I seem to have changed,
People remark on my voice and mannerisms,
My perception is clear but the primaries are shocking,
Oh for yesterday!
I stand trapped between realities,
No past,
No future,
Only a disjointed reality,
Did I force time to stop?
I have wished it often enough,
Yet I can hear the crying voice,
See the tearful eyes,
Through the muffling around me,
My heart and soul can still feel,
My fingers reach out,
To a hand so child-like,
An innocence pervading from every pore,
Yet somehow it reaches me,
And holds me fast.
I hang on to this last bit of reality,
Scared to face the unknown,
Yet this calmness in the midst of the tumult,
Gives me time to think.