I took a pill for that today
And another I took for this
I took another for something else
That one I’m not supposed to miss.
Some I’ve taken for thirty years
I’m settled at fifteen a day
I wonder how much good they do
I don’t know, who can say?

And then we have – the side effects
We don’t like to mention those
We take other pills to counter them
Which have side effects too I suppose.

The question is ‘who really wins here?’
The patient who’s all but forgotten
Or perhaps it’s only Big Pharma
Whose ethics are frequently rotten.
Of course we are always making decisions
Should I take these, maybe, but not take those
It’s a choice we don’t often consider
Maybe now it’s time that I chose.

©Joe Wilson – Long term lunacy…2019