Black carnivores of senility

Constantly fighting back black carnivores
Senilities firm grip tightens
Memories new disappear retaining the old
Simple pleasures of reading
Conversing with lucidity
Even remembering names
Dwindle away in the fog

Diagnosed hidden away in obscurity
Inside a box of white paint barriers
Where daylight filters between metal diamonds
All vestige of personality stripped away
In the bare empty box
Rocks of the lumpy mattress bite deep
Silence the only companion
Hours in silent empty limbo

Sugar coated treats regularly administered
A mind wandering in the blank wilderness
Going in circles nowhere
Faceless warders of this expensive prison come and go
The scrape of metal on metal
Fed a green mushy mess from a spoon
Tasteless

Like the closed world surrounding
Tasteless sight and sound
Endless time
Where days run into night
Where the world is a white box