O LITTLE WHITE TABLET

O little white tablet, how I hate you
I was only 21 years old when introduced to you.
You looked so innocent, so white so pure.
I was told you were the answer to everything
(The Cure)
No-one told me, when they introduced me to
The rest of your family, the yellow and the blue.
The blue being five times stronger than you.
No one told me of the dangers you held within.
Of all the pain that I would have to get through, all the suffering
No-one told me, YOU would rob me, of eighteen years of my life.
That I would be unable to function properly as Mother and Wife.
No-one told me that I would get addicted to you.
Of the pain and suffering, I would have to go through.
To get you out of my system, Alone took two years.
Two more years of heartbreak, many, many tears.
The to find out, I had Agoraphobia.
Several more years, destroyed by fear.
Which a lot of people say is caused by you.
Not being able to go out, far or near.
Hurting all the ones, I loved so dear.
O little white tablet, how I hate you.
But in the end I was the winner, not you.

© Pat Dring