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The dull in blue eyes
Holding of breath
Wishing never to take more.

"Take one a day,
You'll be feeling great!"
Only one was never enough.

"Take two"
"Take four"
Six and eight.

Nothing,
Nothing kept alive.
Up the dosage.

I didn't consume them,
They consumed me.
Became "myself"
I became them.

My teeth now advil,
Made me numb
My eyes now Nyquil,
Put me to sleep

My tears now melatonin,
Caused my brain to silence.
My nails now reactine,
Drove the sickness away.

My skin,
Worst of them all.
Made of acetaminophen,
Put me in the hospital.

"Take one a day,
You'll be feeling great!"
And so I did.

"Take two a day,
You'll be feeling great!"
Up my dose.

"One more a day,
You'll be feeling okay!"
Pills fell from me.

"Your skin,
It's no longer white!"
Weekly pill planners.

"You're smiling..."
Reclaim my body,
Reclaim my mind.

"Two a day,
You'll be feeling great."
And so I did.

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