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Vitamins
February 23, 2013
Vitamins—
pink chalk coating my teeth
in powdery rose dust.
Vitamins—
slipping down my raw throat,
about to make their plunge.
I feel them choking me,
thrusting rosy air from my lips.
They go down without a bite
and lodge their way into my trachea.
Vitamins—
stealing away my pleading breaths,
refusing to listen to my cries for life.
Vitamins—
sneaky little life-nappers
pretending to be protectors.
They are rosy good liars
coated in sugar sweet facades.
“I’ll keep you healthy,” they say.
“You can breathe another day.”
Vitamins—
tricking me as I lay them on my tongue,
about to turn me to a splinter of pink dust.
© Jessica R., Westchester, IL
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