Reuptake

I dumped my serotonin

Like a dirty bottle of rum.

I thought about the monster this thing

Had begun to become. 

I flick the switch to stop the trouble

Shutting that dark part in.

Spit on the dust and the rubble

To wash away the ‘sin’. 

I dodged and burned

Put marks upon your arm

And 

Then 

I 

Hit shred.

Digital is easy

Just got to wipe the data from my head.

Shakespeare’s rose still had thorns

By any other name.

And you and them

And them

And them

Are all the shamelessly same. 

So

I took my serotonin

And rounded it into a ball.

There’s nothing to come of this

No.

No

Thing

At all.

See, I think you got me wrong

And I misconstrued you.

All things considered,

With a silver tongue, that’s not so hard to do.

I give you your dice and say

Yeah, it was nice to smile.

But I smell it on you through the ether

I’m not a naïve child.

It was like a reuptake inhibitor

It was an enjoyable mistake.

But if there’s more than one, there’s more than one

That’s eating and having your cake. 

There were those five minutes

There were things we could do.

But I dumped my serotonin

Instead 

Of 

Giving 

It 

To 

You. 

 
#Reuptake   #YDLD