Take Your Pills
Take this to help you sleepTake this to keep you awake.Take this to make you happyTake this to make you not too happy. Take this to make this first thing you takeNot be the last thing you take.Because you never know, do you? Over the lips andpast the gums,Look out brainstem,Here it comes. It’s nausea, it’s gaining weight,It’s dry mouth and running snotIt’s pissing five times a night,It’s everything you need except when it’s not. I’m not feeling ok today.“Did you take your medicine?”“Where is your medicine?”“Is he taking his medication?” Sometimes I’m allowed to not feel allright,Sometimes the medicine doesn’t save the day.Maybe I just need to sleep through the night.Maybe I just won’t feel OK. I’m sick, I’m not a robot.I don’t just have a loose nut to twist.I’m a person, and sometimes I just need quiet,And dark while I bite down on my fist To. Keep. From. SCREAMING.