They have browsed
Pharmacy shelves
Looking for medicines
To alleviate their pain.
They drink these tonics
As if they are water
And swallow these pills
Like they are candy.
They become
Temporally numb
To the pain,
Their vision is blurred.
They do things
They will later regret
All in the name
Of forgetting the hurt.
They wake up from these
Drug-induced comas
Feeling worse
Than before.
They will tell you
They have found the cure,
But why are they
Still in so much pain?