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C J Baxter Oct 2016
Benzo, blur my mornings and bury my feelings.
Beat down my misery and banish my ecstasy.
Steal my sweetness and turn my stillness sour.
Spit out a new me, and the old me, devour.
You stick in my throat like a longing to say
something I had too soon, too easily forgotten.
Trapped and helpless at the tip of my tongue
is each little thought and each one turns rotten.
Now all my worries wash grey and bore me asleep,
as time stops his march and slows to a creep
that claws through my head, and the worries unsaid
are left to fester in a foul and filthy old heap.  
Though they may reek like flesh on a dying fire,
I could take them or leave them just where they are.
I have no heat, no bold and burning desire
to do anything but nothing, and, so, to nothing I retire.  
Leave me be beeping alarm that screams like a maniac
so desperate to jump to his next brewing thought.
Leave me be roaring traffic, so equally manic,
leave me here in my head to lose this loose plot.
Medication. The third day without meds
Kaitlyn Mitchell Oct 2016
I woke up today and took my medication
I looked at the time and wondered why
It was noon and I was still alive

I woke up today and took my medication
I made a meal that I normally adore
I felt nothing and lived some more

I woke up today and took my medication
At least I don't want to take my own life
Now I don't have to live by the knife

I woke up today and took my medication
I felt like a bottle and put the pills away
I may be a zombie but only for today

I woke up today and didn't take my medication
I laughed and cried and I was enraged
But for once in my life I was engaged
Heavy lidded dozy diver I can feel how
much you tire
Your hands are shaking needlessly as you live life on a wire
Drugs sustain your anxious brain from
filling up with doubt
While your head caves in and your skin
wears thin all you crave is
out
.
Vanessa Annalise Sep 2016
My mind is cut, divided
Into pieces, it hurts so much.
Daily pills are borderline
Keeping me here, above the ground.

"Worthless, no one wants you here."
"You've ******* up again, you're worthless."
"You have failed again, worthless."
My mind screams insecurities.

It's like they gave me a name.
It makes it hard to be better,
Makes it hard to keep going.
An overdose away from freedom.
Ethan Solouki Sep 2016
Here’s some Xanax for the anxiety caused by the Adderall that you got for not being able to focus as a side effect of the anti-depressants prescribed to you for the depression caused by a low nutrient, snake oil infused society.
Ginelle Sep 2016
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maybe i use the drugs to numb out the pain you left me with
it doesn't get easier
Slow agony but still I cut binds
Blood filling every crevace as I go
If life was meant to be easy God would've made me pretty
I down my medication
And bind myself again
Mandi Drake Jul 2016
Intertwine my troubled mind
With simplicity and blind
Me from the morose truth of things
Be the very thing that brings
Out the best of this world so dark
Open up my heart and spark
Up a life that will be better
Than this listlessness I'm bound to weather
It's no secret that I'll miss
The comfort of my deep abyss
Though it's become so familiar to me
I've longed reach beyond and see
Things without the stormy haze
So ready to step out and blaze
A brand new path to feeling well
No longer do I wish to dwell
On everything that could go wrong
I understand that I am strong
Enough to handle this and in spite
of it all I'll be alright.
Blood in one
chemicals in the other
now, "Does this make you feel
ten times better?"
She asked,
"It's true, even the most bitter
can make you feel better"

She thought to herself

- Kaya
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