In her youth she was a mathematics
professor at an ivy league college.
Her coworkers and students
described her as incredibly brilliant
Now she’s a retired, elderly woman,
and her mind has become compromised.
Her brilliance is gone forever;
she’s lost her self awareness.
Mindless, she has become
like a zombie wandering
all over her neighborhood,
and soon she’ll be confined
to a nursing home oblivious
to everything in her ending world.
Bob Boyd