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bitter pill

a poem

By Phoenix RisesPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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sharp like

rebuke

this is a life of ragged sick

dead stuck

corrupt

capture your own

luck

a cold crypt

and a mind losing it

the words are confusing

like

chaos struck

a mess of fabricated understated

lies of

infinite skies

to realize the

lives of

a rigid nonexistence

a ragged

expense

help me see

smooth like

love sensual not so cynical

or

anything not so unusual

or cruel

or just

a bitter painful pill

to swallow

rigged to make you feel

rugged

rigid

rigged

bitter pill for a better pull

try and

imagine a world

be okay with

every dark day

sun pulled out

of the sky like a

vibrant moon pillow

a pill you’ll need to swallow

violent and still

it’s not so easy to live

to love

is it just sex or emptiness

or

just

what it is

I lose track of the ecstasy of pleasure then

a reality

lost track of again trick

life is the bitter pill

swallow for a struggle

dead weight dead

pill bottle lost pill bitter

remember

it’s a hard hard world

often

taken out of context

next

nixed

nicked

knocked

I take the path I sparked bitter pill

blood sport

I have made my life a pure cure

I have made my life medicine again.

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Phoenix Rises

Phoenix will rise from the ashes.

Check out his books at: Amazon.com/author/phoenix_rises

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