Dementia 

Separates the mind from the body

Sometimes rapidly

Sometimes with slow deliberation.

Inexorably 

It stymies the flexibility

Of the most acute bodily organ.

Like a lazar

It pinpoints

And shoots out the controlling lights

Of this vital organ 

Distorting and blistering 

The mind’s road map.

The sting in the tail of this vile scorpion

Reduces the loftiness of  cranial cognition

To a slimy, jellied mess.