Visiting
I'm visiting my mum, but she's not there. There's a shell that looks like her, but inside are only fragments of her that briefly flash into view and disappear as quickly as they came.
I'm visiting my mum but I'm apprehensive as sometimes she's angry and combative and I leave after 2 minutes.
I'm visiting my mum because I'm the only one of her children who lives close enough. My siblings all moved away and the journey isn't worth it if she's in one of her angry moods.
I'm visiting my mum because I want the people running her care home to think I am a good son.
I'm visiting my mum but I don't know how to talk to her because she can't hold a conversation. She can't even string a sentence together so sometimes I just sit and listen to her talk in the nonsense language she uses now.
I'm visiting my mum because that's what you do. You visit your parents. I don't want to think of her alone in a place with nobody she knows.
I'm visiting my mum even though she doesn't know she's my mum. Sometimes it's like she recognises that I'm a familiar face, but not that I am her son.
I'm visiting my mum.