I tell her that I am relapsing – that I am failing recovery.
She asks me ‘Is something triggering it?’
And she tells me ‘You are stronger than this.’
And I don’t know the words, my fingertips can’t find all of the letters to tell her that nothing is triggering this and I am not any stronger than the day I woke up in the emergency room, sore and confused, wondering why I had been given another chance at something I had failed so badly.