it's all too easy when you're functioning
to fine-tune your high-horse positioning
"you've got to pull yourself together boy,
start acting like a man"
it all appears so simple
when your life’s gone according to plan,
those of us who've shattered inside
and can no longer be identified,
are left to rot inside a cage
and then over time, quietly erased
through electroshock
and prescribed medication,
followed by your stigmatization
let me tell you about the fear,
the anguish that comes at night,
the white rooms, long corridors
the flickering of the light,
you can shout all you want,
demand your consultation,
“you have to remember you’re here
solely for observation, now sit down
and shut the fuck up”, here
take your medication,
an hour or so as the pills kick in,
the ‘specialists’ come circling,
they quietly start their scribbling,
a clipboard per patient,
a wild eyed diagnosis
"Mr Warren it appears you’ve got an acute psychosis,
you may not agree with this specific stance,
so we’ll keep you sedated in a pharmaceutical trance,
your senses will suffer, you may wish you’d never been born,
unfortunately, you gave yourself to us
the moment you signed the consent form"
