Unantibioticafiable.

Like a paracetamol pulsated into -

Lemsip.

Meant to heal.

A protector.

You ground me down into puff powdery particles

Of dust.

Before,

Pouring.

Kettle boiling water-

Into the mix.

Stirring and

Scalding.

Blistering childhood

Into the welts

Of adulthood.

That cannot

Be bleached away.

No matter how hard

They are scrubbed.

You infiltrated –

In the night

Like a viral bug

Untreatable.

A violent leprosy

Unantibioticafiable.

Insipid and slow,

Spreading.

Draining light -

Leaving.

Only

Fragments-

Of skin.

Stirred into -

A placebo

That can’t

Cure

Anyone.

Least of all.

You.