Love And Other Drugs Poem by Elena Toledo

Love and other drugs
The burden of beauty that keeps
tormenting my skin,
the love of thee that comes
only with label,
'beauty', if not I'm doomed.
I can't compete with the normal female,
that one! yes, the one you yearn to
have intimacy with!

It is not me the beautiful me that was; taking
sedative to ease the pain, the misery of the
pills taking by day. I keep forgeting I'm not with thee.
I keep forgeting I'm a suffering slave.

And I remind myself you are not with me.
the pain is inevitable to stop.
Why am I not with you? because your
not with the less fortunate.
'You believe you can do better'.

I don't want it! No I don't;
Your pity is more than a sword through my throat.
Yes! I need the drug and the love too,
both to keep living this misery;
I can't let it go. If I could just disappear,
I would be there in the other side of my
reality pushing my luck once more.