Cheer Up Mate ' Look On The Bright Side'

I got out of bed today

and didn’t pull the curtains

I received a text message 

about my medication

it was ready for collection,

I forgot to take my Venlafaxine

yesterday afternoon,

and now all I feel is

Doom!

Gloom! 

Doom!

the side effects are fantastic 

it’s like sticking your tongue 

in an electric socket,

or licking a mousetrap

with battery acid on it, 

the truth be told

I’m on this junk for life

whatever my ‘shrink’ spouts

he’s clearly talking shite,

I’m a long-term user 

and he’s become my abuser,

a highly respectable pusher,

I gave up eating breakfast

because of acid reflux,

the Quetiapine’s made my

esophageal sphincter lazy

the non- stop burning 

drives me fucking crazy 

so now I mainline Rennie,

I’ve got so many unspecified

chemicals floating inside me, 

far more than most people 

have ever seen, and

don’t get me started

about the Mirtazapine

I’m a “big pharma dream”

don’t you think? oh, and

I regularly mix 

these drugs with drink,

it gives me a buzz not knowing

if I’m even going to wake up

in the morning ...... and

as the world starts buzzing 

and as “the boring”

start trudging

I feel like I’m dying

through no want of trying,

and then you have 

the mouth-breathers

with their perfect pain free life

who just can’t help giving me

their bullshit advice

when they have zero clue 

about the way I feel

or what I’ve been through,

and continue to,

they’re wasting their breath

I don’t share their view,

I turned the TV on then 

instantly switched it off

there’s nothing to watch

unless you’re addicted to brain-rot

so

I went to pull the blinds 

and then I instantly declined,

there was no way I could 

face the day feeling like 

a hunch back in the clock tower,

so there was nothing left to do

but go take a shower 

and get down the pub 

for happy hour