medicate yourself

These pills are hard to swallow
Mixed with all these tears
They
just
Slide
mercilessly on
Your tongue and then
Choke down your throat-
Dry and sudden
As you pretend not to taste
The gagging red syrup
Suffocating you
Or feel the pleading needles with
No more veins to collapse.
You read "Pain Relief" on one
Of the many bottles and as
You peel it off,
You start to cry.