Perscription for Insanity Rx Trilogy #2

#2 of the Trilogy. A work in progress.

Prescription for Insanity

Rx Trilogy

 

I'm done.

I'm tired of the spiraling

out of control.

The frantic highs that send me to the precipice

and the devastating lows that threaten to

crush me.

 

I can't see beyond this

I can't feel

I can't think

My soul went somewhere

and I am vacant.

 

The little pills

come with physical side affects

that the announcer spits out at

the end of the commercial

but no one told me about the

emptiness.

 

That would have sent me

running in the opposite direction

that pill would never have made

it's way past my lips.

The doctors say this is a life time

sentence, this is just “a fact of life”.

 

What good is another day,

let alone another thirty or forty years

if all it is

is nothing?

 

Where is the pill that heals the soul?

Where is the therapy that brings me

back into the picture?

Where am I?

What am I?

There's a pulse, but what does

this heart beat for?

 

Take another pill

and another..... and another.

 

 

 

Reviews

[R J Askew]

Intriguing title, drew me in. Your poem poses some key questions for many if not all of us. We do not understand ourselves perhaps. We think we do and think we can smooth away the rough edges of our our psyches. But is that wise? Or are we funelling people into some mean (very) average (very) notion of how we should be? I suspect in years to come we may look back on the age of the pill much as we look back on bedlam. i am sure a more varied and tolerant society wld be able to accommodate many of the conditions we view as illness today. Our ideas of what is sane or insane will probably also shift. Just because large numbers of us behave in a certain way does not make it a sane. Meanwhile take the pills and shut up, seems to be the way. I wonder how many of the pills prescribed are really necessary?

[Donni]

thank you all for the reviews... I battled a dark period in my earlier years, fortunately I chose NOT to take the pills, because this poem reflects my beliefs about medication of any kind. I have been living a med free life since my mid 20s (now in my mid 40's) and it shocks doctors (on the rare occasion that I see one) that I don't take any pills- organic chem free life- but this could have been my personal story- I saw it all before me if I had made that choice.

[bob, small b. aka invs]

it's hard to find any balance when it comes to mental health and drugs. on the one hand life is intolerable for those who suffer with depression, bi-polar, schizophrenia, etc. when they are not medicated. not to mention the havoc it causes family and friends. but the drugs do take the edge off not only the symptoms, but life in general. so it's a trade off. my thinking is that the alleviation of symptoms is worth the loss of some other things. but only the person affected can make that decision.
i guess this isn't much of a critique of the writing. more a comment about the subject. as to the writing..... well done. i certainly can relate. i hope if this is based on your personal experience, that things work out satisfactorily for you. whether it be by finding a better med or finding a way to live without them. good luck.

[Martin See]

your writing reminds me of a personal encounter of a bad trip i had....though i didn't have the guts to relive it by penning down the experience...it good to read something i can relate to...great stuff..thumbs up...

[Tim H]

Very impactful, well written poem. The disparate futility makes the reader ache along with the narrator.

[bluessadmood]

Very strong write I could see the frustration,the cry out,the dispair..
I am done,tired of spiraling,always the the frantic highs,and davastating lows that crush me
Cant see beyond cant feel cant think its the pills the life time sentence
Whats in another day,what heals the soul and brings me back as whole
You know dear ,i never felt like this the way you tell ,though i had it for sometime and I understand
But I understood life,to know what to expect of it ,and really not much
I count on myself ,I get my satisfaction from the inside of me
I get my happiness and feel myself whole when i search deep inside
and I loved myself ,I loved my thoughts and loved the whole world around me
and there I saw the sun came shining,it did shine most of the time,and I felt peace with me
lovely write..

[Emotional Orphan]

You have done an amazing job of bleeding the narrators (your?) heart and mind onto this page. A nice work with a truthful flow. I hope to read more of your work. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

[Fernando Pessoa]

So powerful! Like taking a page from someone's private journal. Vividly done and emotionally stirring.

John Dryden: "For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."