Are you all right?
I worry about you sometimes.
I can’t help but wonder how it is
for you
in trying to overcome certain
impediments.
I imagine it’s frustrating
traveling at that pace,
struggling with your particular difficulties.
I hope I’m not insulting
but I want to make sure
you’re still up to the task.

I know it’s hard. I sympathize.
I’m trying to empathize
though I don’t have much direct experience with those issues.
I don’t have a tongue
that so frequently has had to contort
to speak such difficult words, like
“You were right”
and “I was wrong.”

Of course,
the practice must make it easier,
or so I’d imagine.