Rehab Sister

those were the days...

Give up your clothes to the nurses
although you dread being naked
Forfeit your cloak of suffering
chucked on the floor and bleeding

Take a long thick drink
of your thin vanished essence
Erased like crumbs of dust
broken and tangled senses

Un-witch forgotten courage
shrouded in narcotics
Sanity dangles in infirmary
a funeral for the methodical

Cough-up your swallowed secrets
my reckless rehab sister
Follow in fragile footsteps
interlude of a refugee lingers

  Neurotic scenes fallout of slumber
  seeping through night's filter
Tricks rummage a skinny frame
expose your crafty captor

Tempers dense and wicked 
recover from the vial of perception
Years devoured in the bottle
A region of narrow existence