A Chance Encounter

She says, “You’re looking well”

Inside my mind I check myself out:

I forget what I heard five minutes ago

I can’t recall things that I used to know

Anxiety, apathy, doubt, indecision

Compulsive behaviour, paranoia, depression

The nightmares, insomnia, hallucinations

The stiffness, the slowness, erectile dysfunction

The shaking and twitching, severe constipation

The words I forget and the lost concentration

I tell her… “Oh you know,

I have good days and bad days”