A cocktail before dinner
social graces must be adhered to.
Company’s a good excuse for
an extra glass of wine.
Company
doesn’t see her take
the two little pills she swallows
in private, telling herself they’re
just to help her relax a bit.
That’s what everybody says;
The Belle of the ball, graceful,
and beautiful and always on the go.
her enormous inner pain. They
can’t see her low self esteem
or feel how unloved she feels.
Neither they, nor she, knows
she’s addicted. She smiles
and her smile lights up the
whole room /
can imagine
she’s contemplating
suicide.
