Tuesday Night

[WindRavenX]

Tuesday Night

I

It should be enough
you know.
But it’s not.
It does not pay the rent
fill my stomach
pay my student loans
or warm my small room.
(and it’s so cold now in Boston—
ice clings to my throat when I wake)
It should be enough
just to be sane
even for a little while.

II

They tell me
to fill my emptiness with things
I do not have the gold for.
Dull my grief with
their chemicals that my body doesn’t need.
They tell me
my fragile peace is
undesirable.
They won’t allow it.
There’s no profit for them.
(No Paxil, Prozac, Ambien, Ritalin, Vallium)
My despair
is their gain of riches.

III

Oh
When you’re gone
(or, rather, taken from me)
who’ll keep me
from tearing myself
apart.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Wow.

;(

[nofurylike]

2. superb

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. very nice

i like it