I am losing…
things.
Words.
I am losing words.
I am
with increasing regularity
losing ideas,
ideas that used to be dear
that used to power me.

I am growing
weaker, mentally
unable to recall the simple
the elegant
the personal.
More and more
I am becoming
a creature less and less.

I forget phrases.
I miss steps.
I misspeak.
I mistake friends for family
and family for fiends.
I am unused to so much more
than before.

Something has happened.
Something indecipherable.
Something unable to be described.

I have become
slim?
Is that the right word?
I cannot recall.