Take Two, Call In the Morning

Drugs like anger and toxin like pills
Flashing from the side of the ditch. 
Holding out the rain, trying so hard 
to rot whatever it touches.

Curses to the sun 
that drying *****, 
flooding the world with her harsh light.
Waking all the thinking neurons.
Firing together, they hold the promise of death.

Drugs like anger and toxin like pills
Fast drain the clear expectancies of family,
borrowed sanity with debts to pay
forming alliances, with reverence for some,
placation for none.

Cairns long erected will go down for sure
tumble or crumble 
the directions are set, no fanatic speeches will stop the flow
of the rotting water 
It will saturate the sills on all the windows. 

Drugs like anger and toxin like pills
Pity the sap still runs.
The corn yet grows;
where death counts twice
and admires your consumption.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Beesley Avatar
August 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM
Very unique...liked much
Dietrich Avatar
May 25, 2015 at 3:10 PM
It's so true that anger rots our world. Well, that is what I got from this poem. And those with certain anger issues, certainly DO need to take two pills (prescribed by Doctor!!)
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