Panacea
Panacea
by Chris Commodore©2010
If you cannot pay the bill,
Out of control, lost your zeal,
Too much fat in every meal;
Take a pill.
Trouble napping day or night,
Problems driving dark or light,
Slow or silly, have some blight;
Take a pill.
Complications, true or light,
Fear, misfortune, scared of height
No success, try hard you might;
Take a pill.
Cannot avoid crushing fate,
Never early, always late,
Cannot satisfy your mate;
Take a pill.
Wonder if t’was said to Eve,
If you ever Adam grieve,
When true love you can’t conceive,
Take a pill.
In the rest room or the tub,
If you ache and need a rub,
If you groan to do the job,
Take a pill.
When this warring planet dries,
Gross ill-fated dreams, just lies,
Crooked leaders you despise,
Take a pill.
If life’s phantoms block you in,
Making sure you cannot win,
When all hope is lost within,
Take a pill.
All the trinkets you amassed,
Dusk of life, you feel harassed,
Fame all fleeting, crumbled, crashed
Take a pill.
Greenery erased, no more bloom;
Spend the summer in your room.
Winter chills point to the tomb,
Take a pill.
Strafed this psychedelic orb,
Heaven’s shocked, and angels sob.
Civil rights left to the mob,
Take a pill.
See the truth that you fought for,
Trampled, swept right out the door;
Scruples, values count no more.
Take a pill.
Never mind WAY, TRUTH, and LIFE.
Amass mammon, live for strife,
Squeezed by scourges of this life;
Take a pill.
About this poem
Meditation on attempts to simplify the many complications of this life; how this current system of things has sought to resolve everything by artificial means. The repetition "Take a pill" is purposeful and is intended to remind the reader of what seems a futile attempt to resolve all issues with man's pitiful panacea - the pill.
Submitted by ti.min on November 16, 2023
Modified by ti.min on November 16, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,539 |
Words | 318 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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