Bitter Pill

Pills in all shapes and sizes.
Adverse effects scream out from every bottle.
Pills for nausea, pills for pain.
Pills for every occasion.
Pharmaceutical salvation from a living hell.

So many pills that a bag is required to carry them all.
Here is your "blue bag" they say,
and thus, the damned are separated from the living.

Pills to swallow on precise timetables.
The bitter taste burns the tongue and sears the throat.
Pills that were supposed to heal,
Instead they tortured and killed.

Bottles of magic gone rogue.
Someone switched the potions.
Round and oblong in
Toxins spilling out.
Damaging my sweet boy,
Stealing him from me.

Now the bitter pill is mine.
It is caught in my throat.
I am choking on the pain.
I cannot breathe.
How many can I swallow?

bigD © 2011