Can you sort it?
This file cabinet of your brain?
Does your mind search
only to find a drawer empty?

As your RAM is blank,
does your spouse ask you a question
or speak mid-sentence and you’re lost?
Does reality escape you
as your mind gets fuzzy and has brown outs?

Is this old age or something worse?
You go to the doctor,
you check your medications’ side effects.
In the end you can’t be sure which causes it.

Your physician orders tests;
you wait with fear.
He comes into the exam room.
So is it that?