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