Poison Pills
But Sadness Kills
So this is how I fight it

Shudder and sigh
Tears in my eyes
This is what my life is

This house doesn't need ghosts to scare anyone
The walls take sanity for fun
They'll hex you with whispers in tongue
Arrive with confidence - leave with none
The longer you stay, the further undone
The air stifles, it thickens and numbs
It weighs down on you like tons
Constricting every cell, it stuns
Skeletons in these closets tote guns
Heat comes at you like fire from the mouth of dragons
I mean heat like blaze of a million suns
All the while, your mind weakens and maddens
This house kills souls like it's a soul assassin
A suffering only the wicked can fathom

White screens through teary eyes
Trying hard to show him the light.
But I'm afraid I'm too late
And too weak to beat fate.
And if he dies tonight
I don't know how I'd fight,
How I'd keep on going
Without our friendship growing.
So I pray to whoever listens
Please keep strength with him.
Give him the will to go another day
And then again tomorrow until he stays.
I can't make it through this on my own
I love him, please don't leave me alone.
Until the end, I'm along for the ride
Even if it ends in two suicides.

That serpent fear
has slithered into
my stomach
and is coiled there
a dark, solid weight
secreting his poisons
digesting my soul
I swallow hard
to push him back
down
my throat where
he climbs and lunges
to remind me
he is still there