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Lithium

It hurts
As the lithium
Takes over
My white scarf
Stained with your blood
Slowly turning red
As tears well in my eyes
And I watch you die
Murderer
The children whisper
In my dreams
Why do they haunt me so?
The lithium
Isn’t working tonight
And I still can’t seem to shake
The feeling of eyes
Upon my back
And the feeling of power
Of tearing flesh
Leers at me around every corner
Nightmares
Sweat beads on my forehead
Contents in my stomach
Showing once again
As your bloody hand
Reaches out to me
Through the darkness
The lithium only works for a time
Before the pain
Truly sets in
My whole life
Stained with your blood
As tears
Flood my bed side
And the children whisper
Murderer

Written by coolblue110

Published on Feb 5 2010 at 21:23 CST. Read all poems by coolblue110
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sinister agony

Written on 02/06/10 at 03:41:34 CST by Abracadabra

...without real chemical antidote - truly disturbing verse.

Maybe Haldol instead of lithium...

Written on 02/06/10 at 15:42:19 CST by Biscuit Ray

Yes, I'm picky, so I just had to mention that the illness above sounds
like schizophrenia and that lithium isn't used as a primary treatment
for schizophrenia. If you want to be accurate, you should go with one of
the older antipsychotics like Haldol.

This illustrates a typical writer's problem: People associate the word
"lithium" with serious mental illness, so incorrect or not, it does have
greater impact.

Except for that, your words are very vivid and well chosen.

re: Maybe Haldol instead of lithium...

Written on 02/06/10 at 19:51:28 CST by coolblue110

Yes, I know this. My mother takes lithium for depression, and she isn't extreme. I know first hand what lithium does and what it treats. Thanks you, though! :)

words

Written on 02/06/10 at 17:44:10 CST by Natalya

i like it a lot
such a vivid, effective poem. images of darkness, blood, murderer - mixture of red and black - put it all together into the grotesque powerful picture

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