Cure

Drawing the molecule

Over and over again

M-D-M-A.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

Methamphetamine .

Amphetamine.

A hammer-to-anvil sense of the world 

that brought us misery

casting syllables from the bunker of failed civilizations  

Loaded into a pez dispenser, like a clip

Dropping red-eyed, hating bodies into a chemical euphoria

They don’t fire from guns, they don’t explode

we're safe, man.

realizing that justice is another ideal  

rooms of shadowy figures loom overhead

towering specters that cast the spell of words 

with their shrapnel-laden

B-P-S-D.

Schizophrenia.

Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Sociopath.

Sculpted expressions designed to lift themselves up

devastate those who trusted their benign surroundings

Forgetting that; though the ocean is a magical place, taken lightly, you can still drown

I think of those figures in the rolling waves

the far-off oceans  that mountain people imagine

collectively forgetting human worth