Put me to sleep...

by Jadeism   May 27, 2005


Put Me to Sleep...

Doctor.
Please.
Hand me those pills
I know I'm not feeling ill
Please, don't you pity me?
Look at everyone dying around me
Maybe you should take them too
Those pills
Give them to me

Doctor.
I don't want to live.
This pain I'm feeling-
Where, you ask?
Right here!
In here, where no eyes
can see; a deep cut
no one can sew shut
so doctor please
I ask for a release

Doctor...
please, don't dismiss me
with that look
don't treat a patient
this way, I know
I'm nothing out of med. books
But look at them, see how
they suffer, look at me!
don't let me see anymore
don't let me feel this
give me a shot
Please, doctor, please

Doctor!
You can't walk away
thinking you've put me
through all this torture
Please consider my future
it's not really all that
promising, is it?
Look at them...
Look at this guy to my left.
I watched him frothing
last night, and the guy on
my right; he was screaming
for his mother, for our Mother
hailMarydearLordJesus,
you haven't seen....
you didn't hear..
you have no idea...

so
just give me a shot.
Please.

Doctor...
You don't know what it's like;
having to pretend to die along
with the others; you don't know
how it's like; the guilt
for being alive; for watching
helplessly; doctor, you treat them
but they die, you can't treat me
and yet I'm alive, doctor I'm cursed
You can't sew my heart shut, and it's
bleeding, I'm losing my thoughts,
doctor, the pain
the pain
give me the pills, please

(voices in the haze)
But there's nothing wrong with him-
I swear!
Maybe-
He just had a minor-
But-

Doctor!
Nothing is minor.
No crack in a fortress
can ever be considered small
I'm bleeding, bleeding
and yet you stand before me,
telling me what I should be
feeling, tell me more and
I'll be reeling, just give me a shot
and I'll bother you no more
The pain is too much, I cannot
bear- you give me no treatment
you give me no care and all I
ask for is just one shot and
a few of those pills will do
Nobody will know,
just me and you,
you can just say
it's the minor injury I had and-
the pills, please, the pills!

(a voice from within)
I think we better put him to sleep.

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