"Were you at my wedding?"
I stepped on the brake
unsettling words
for me an earthquake

"Were you at my wedding?"
Again she inquired,
regarding me
as if I were hired

to drive her around
no relation to her
she being transported
to the past as it were

so swift was the switch
I was not prepared
the daughter erased
at a stranger she stared

yet here it was
the thing to come
this earnest question
from my "Mum"