• The feel of the grass on my toes,
    Is home to me
    Not to feel that
    Is like having no home
    These shoes take away the home
    “If the feel of the grass is home,
    What is the feeling you have with the shoes?” the strange lady asked
    “Loneliness” I reply
    She seemed familiar
    Like the feeling of the grass in between my toes
    She is the woman the doctors say I called Mother
    But the memory is distant
    Soon it will come back
    That is what the doctors tell “Mother” and I
    When she cries about my accident and my lost memory,
    All I can do is cry with her and try to remember
    “My memory will come back soon.”
    I tell Mother
    Simply repeating the doctors words
    Not knowing what they mean
    The woman smiles at me and says back “Yes it will.”
    I soon found out the truth,
    About my lost memory
    There was ice on the road and the car went sliding
    My head was found bleeding from when we slid
    I had hit it on the cracked window
    I also found out the reason why the grass feeling was gone
    I was in the hospital
    There was no grass where I was
    So the feeling was gone,
    But in place of the grass feeling was a woman
    The woman I feel at home with
    The one I call Mother