Curse Of The Gods (2) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

New medication is losing its dark power over me,
the epic Götterdammerung is lifting - double vision
clearing up and my old enemies – Weltschmerz –
Existential Angst and Nihilism are moving away

Thought it a spiritual problem, proof of guilt that
brought the curse of gods down upon me, but my
only guilt lay in taking medicine which befogged
my mind causing hallucinations of estrangement

Practice enabled me to play the role of debonair
flibbertigibbet at work, but it was a descent into
hell which only Milton with his Paradise Lost and
the Fall of Man can possibly understand

My feelings, Hope, Love and Joy are returning,
shocked at the way they were ousted by this evil
medication clearly concocted by old Nick himself,
laughing maniacally and jumping up and down

Delighting in the pain it would cause mankind…

27 November 2013