Sinking ships

Alzheimer’s disease,

Erasure of everything

We have ever learned

Even instinctive

Functions  such as chewing and

Swallowing, speaking,

 Continence control,

The brain inevitably

Losing its instincts

To regulate most

Vital organic actions.

We then are laid up

And suffer ailments

Common to the bed ridden:

Infections, heart trouble,

Pneumonia...the brain

Begins to clot with plaque and

Bad fibrous tangles

While neurons shut down

By the millions, dimming,

Distinguishing us

From what we like to

Define ourselves as members

Of the human specie.