A Bed of Salt

By the time I came 'round to feeling pain

Moonlight had flooded the room.

Vomit hung in the back of my throat

Remnants of last night's doom.


My eyes could only think to bleed as

The world came into view.

Reality shook my pallid hand and said,

"Hey, Babe, I've come back to haunt you".


I turned my Head aside in search

Of some miraculous escape,

But there was no hope upon which to grasp

Except one pill I had been remiss to take.


It lay beside my unused pillow

Too small to shoulder such fate

Yet, it was the only link between

My hell and heaven's locked gate.


My body was stiff as though entombed

On a dried up lake of salt.

I blamed you for everything that was

For I could not meet my own fault.


My eyes closed shut in desperate yearn

That sleep should come my way

Yet, neither incubus nor succubus

Answered invitation to come out to play.


The sun continued to rise outside

I spat at it's rich optimism

How could darkness have failed me so cruelly?

When I needed it most to imprison


The lonely pill resisted not as I

Laid it upon my tongue.

And, from far away some eulogy spoke

Of the shames of someone so young.


It melted too fast like the mendicants Eucharist

Neither sweet nor sour to taste

I swallowed hard to earn my bale keep

A whore in some forgotten place.


I had walked the aisle to the sacrificial altar

But the journey had never arrived

For the people and the pills that had sworn their love

Even death refused attendance at my side.

Blue Mc Donnell grew up in Ireland and has spent many years traveling and working in different countries. She has had varied careers of embalming, acting and truck driving. She has been writing poetry and short stories since she was a child and has had some of her work published both in Ireland and the USA. She is currently in Santa Monica and works as a Hypnotherapist and Reiki healer. www.healthyhappylife.mysite.com. Blue is a volunteer with the non-profit organization "School on Wheels" and has been tutoring homeless children since 2000. She is ever grateful for all that these children bring to her life.

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