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Numb me, dead & blue
Sleepless raccoon eyes, blank stares
A ghostly figure stands bare & bone
Wanting the pills
Any movement is excruciating effort, crushed & crippled
Any conscious thought feels like an aneurism
Needing the pills
Lay freezing on the cold cracked concrete curb, cool & crisp
Dizzy spells subsiding slightly, silly & sweet
Missing the pills
Orange pills for inflammation, a numbing like
Green pills for circulation though still it leaves me white
Pills for peaking pain not placid
All pills, all my pills—MINE only
Nine pills taken daily to keep my body at ease & warm
Reverse effect now destitute
Numb me, dead & blue
A ghostly figure stands bare & bone
Wanting the pills
Any movement is excruciating effort, crushed & crippled
Any conscious thought feels like an aneurism
Needing the pills
Lay freezing on the cold cracked concrete curb, cool & crisp
Dizzy spells subsiding slightly, silly & sweet
Missing the pills
Orange pills for inflammation, a numbing like
Green pills for circulation though still it leaves me white
Pills for peaking pain not placid
All pills, all my pills—MINE only
Nine pills taken daily to keep my body at ease & warm
Reverse effect now destitute
Numb me, dead & blue
Published 19th Oct 2011
| Edited 20th Oct 2011
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Anonymous
21st Oct 2011 1:11am
I like the use of ampersands. A nicely disturbing, sometimes lyrical poem.
21st Oct 2011 4:18pm
@disturbing, yeah it is. Thats what i was going for. Its not everyday that one literally turns 'dead-blue' freaking out your friends :/.
Thank you for the comment :)
Thank you for the comment :)
21st Oct 2011 4:46pm
21st Oct 2011 5:03pm
I'll add that this is closest description of what happens when i dont take my pills and furthermore one of my favourite pieces that ive written (which was the day i submitted it) thus far.
Thank you for your thought :).
Thank you for your thought :).
