Your Psychiatry
your psychiatry picks away at me
pulling at my stitches
plagued by witches casting
Prozac spells, who the hell
is prescribing these pills?
a sliced and diced life
sits elegantly
on the table of fantasy,
a glass sits in front of me,
denial is a vial topped up
with a bitter tonic
we make a toast to the moronic,
to think the cosmos in my mind
can be refined by swallowing
unspecified chemicals,
yeah right!
pharmaceutical oracles
with their insightful predictions
can never cure my afflictions,
the depressed martyrs
set fire to themselves
to save the town folk
from the fear found
in the collective
cerebellar hemisphere,
diagnosis is a task,
you never ask
you never listen
have you ever really heard me?
you’re committing perjury
on my senses
as the drug pusher dispenses
strange coloured tablets
into small white containers,
“swallow them all in one
soon you’ll feel numb”
your psychiatry,
is unimaginable surgery
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
you’ve gotta be kidding me!
I can’t align myself with
vapid ways of thinking
that’s what’s got me drinking,
I pacify and dull the pain
with an addiction I can’t abstain
Mrs Lazarus comes to me
when I’m in a psychotic cage
her hands are warm
and slightly wrinkled with age,
her bedside manor
is an anchor in an ocean
of padded cells,
nothing subdues
the screams and yells
not even a bucket full of pills,
I fucking hate this place,
the decor is old and cold
it’s here where the world
dump their unwanted
broken
and
busted
stigmatised
and
taunted,
we’re all embarrassments
placed in cubicles for study,
quietly hidden from society
dissected from the family,
dead meat, incomplete
it’s like an inverted resurrection
every time I’m sectioned,
I rise again, for what?
I feel like shit,
your treatment is a prelude,
slow,
sluggish
and
so
hard
to manage
Mrs Lazarus comes to me
at my most damaged
she removes my shoelaces
in case I decide to hang myself,
I’m so dizzy, here is there
or whereabouts,
her demeanor is oblique
she never critiques
always listens,
never forcing her opinions,
she keeps me company
throughout the night
and when my meds kick in
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