Lewy body dementia
Devastation
Robbery
Defamation
Cruelty
Why then does my traitorous mind
Immediately start singing
“Meet me in St. Louie, Louie…”

I gift you this earworm
A much kinder gift
Than telling you to google
Lewy body dementia

Robin William’s suicide
Depression
Cognitive decline
Shuffling gait
Fearfulness
Slowed speech 
Slowed walk 
Slowed understanding 
Slowed everything

Slow, slower, slowest
Death

Time to push up my sleeves
Banish the earworm
And get to work loving

Love, lovelier, loveliest
These cherished memories
Of the man now hidden
Beneath those treacherous
Lewy body deposits
That bankrupt him