Modern Medicine (a free-flow poem)

Here is a quick fire free-flow poem I wrote in a few minutes. Sometimes stream of consciousness writing is the most authentic, and fun to create!

Meditation, masturbation

Each to their own brand of medication

Be is spirituality, be it sugar

Is one better than the other?

Whatever it takes to get us through

Whatever it takes to make you, you

How do you get your daily hit?

A facebook post or a caffeine fix

Love Island or Jeremy Kyle

A dose of sanity, for a while

Fast paced speech or slow and steady

Right now, or when you’re ready

Netflix binge, casual sex or ‘chill’

Modern medicine in a pill

Herbs were there at the start of time

Flavour food or make you feel fine?

Iburprofen for that, paracetomol for this

Drink enough water, colour of your piss

Searching for something, feeling lost

Quick fire happiness, but at what cost?

Evolving, developing, making progress

Yet we regress, making sense of the mess

Take a step back, admire the view

Switch off the phone in company, too

Make eye contact, hear what they say

Carpe diem, seize the day

Use words to make you feel fine

Don’t presume you have infinite time

Modern world with infinite choice

Do you still have a voice?