Sucked Dry, My Friend. Poem by Marijke McKinney

Sick spines
Directing towards
Our groggy minds
Killing yourself
Dose by dose
I can’t stand to watch
Your body crumble
Motionless body
Pills on the desk
This isn’t going to help
And I have realized
I can’t change you
I have realized
I can’t become this too

You drag me under
And all those around
To make the numbness
Accompanied with faces
Who go out in the dark

Your light is shut off
And I have realized
The switch isn’t at all
Close to me
And I have realized
I can’t change you
I have realized
I can’t become this too

If I stay
I’m burdened
Weighted down
With the depression
Leaked out in the air

You only
Bring me down
Sucked dry
My former friend