Why?
Why the pill, he asked
A Serotonin Jesus to save you
Why is the world so afraid of sadness?
Do you know sadness?
Have you fallen down that razor wire lined rabbit hole,
slippery with viscous hopelessness
Fingers flayed and bloodied
Trying to grasp the edge
of a bottomless well
The mirror a black hole
Sucking marrow from the light
Have you touched sadness?
Dreams filled with thrumming paralysis
Buried alive beneath the weight of failure
Your bed a tomb you cannot rise from
Sleep become life’s antidote
Fearful of waking up
To the nightmare of the new day
Have you seen sadness?
The hollow place where you used to be
Hoping the world will miss you
But convinced it won’t
Existence so meaningless
Ebb has replaced flow
Filling over the mistake you once occupied
Do you understand sadness?
Is it just weakness
A genuflection away from cure
Is it bucking up and moving on
Ignoring the squatter in your soul
Ripping out the cancer with blunt instruments of abuse
Getting over it
Snapping out of it
Thinking positively
Or is it finding solace in friends
Who ask you
Why the pill?
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