A Memory Made of Gold

Eyes fast dilate at the sight

Of a prepped syringe with a careful dose of medicated-

Rip out the cannula, fluid drips in slow motion

Onto the ivy plant, this mandate is poison

Swallow your prescription marked with a red cross

Calling lights that scream in blue at hand grenade hospitals

Stick in the needles, pull out the pin

Shattered into fragments, shrapnel treatment begins

Chewing on roses with no regard for thorns

Blood stained smiles creating joy

In the county built on somber words

Eyes fast dilate at the sight

Of a prepped syringe with a careful dose

Of medicated love

You're a patient of pain