Patent Medicine

Skeletal languor
Stricken with disease
Profoundly invested
Impossible to please
 
Indecent immaturity
Spurning malaise
Inelegant nights
Lacklustre days
 
Become a repellent  
To societal norms
Enlighten me persistence  
It comes in all forms
 
Merciful victim
Mindless detention
No essence of normality
No knowledge retention
 
All feasible treatments
Rid us of trust
While temptations disguise
Proverbial lust
 
The constant allure
The hypnotic dance
They peddle the cure
And the people romance
 
Utopian broadcast
Charming them blind
Stark sage and his fetters
Equipped and unkind
 
While the devil bleeds pride
He poisons the nation
Shall the curtain’s unveiling
Reveal provocation?
 
The money rolls in
The effects, undisputed
Follow the lies
All these minds they’ve polluted  
 
Will they awaken with onus
O’ who will they damn?
Spread ritual with promise
Spilt blood on the lamb