I take an army of pills just to get from one day to the next. |
-Pills For Pain- by Keaton Foster Blue Red Numbers Signs Colors decide What’s inside What’s contained Bright means danger Neutral relives anger Grams, ounces, weight An abundance of lethality At the fingertips of a madman Oh the hypocrisy Doctors, always eager To tell me to just relax I wish it was just so easy In a row of plenty Those bottles stand Little soldiers doing their part Taking me to others places Allowing me to escape Myself and my pain Myself and my ways Myself and this reality Such a hellish duality With them I feel nothing Without them I feel everything Paranoia is always in bloom Hysteria based off only clues Screaming hear me darkness Pleading touch me light Torn into many pieces At such a dangerous intersection I am always standing Waiting to be hit Run down like a dog From a direction opposite Of the one that I am looking Pills for pain A hell of a thing A daily choice that I must make The only way that I can manage to live As the world around slowly unwinds Sooner or later the amounts Won’t be enough Sooner or later I will no longer Find a way to be numb Sooner or later I will feel everything That I fight to betray… Pills For Pain Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013 |