What Have We Here

You are always a person but when's it safe

to say you have a way?

They thought I must have been cold

and jealous and I'm still those things,

and now at least there's warmth and support

as counterbalance.

You keep smiling, we keep smiling,

and then there's the resetting middle distance

as counterbalance and then, shaken from that, 

we are helping you

find your feet when we don't know

what you think feet are.

That's a fine way to live with two sets of systems, 

it requires some patience and grace

for the shoehorn to slide you into ours 

whilst we have to relearn what

was unknowingly ours to forget, 

the clue, the context, the chicken, the egg.