This month, Motley presents a series examining drugs through the lens of poetry. Second in this series is Sinead Mckweon’s thoughtful examination on excess. This is ‘A Thousand Tricks’.
A Thousand Tricks
We look into the mirror of carnival tricks
Drink, Drugs, Beauty
We hide, we waste and we cover
our fears and our shame.
tears streaming
screams echo
hands clasped before us
we pray, we pray, we pray.
Our voices raw from crying out
in desperation to be fixed
our minds lost, no longer our own
we see the ads every which way,
trapping us in a box of lies
that show how it should be,
tell us that we need to be repaired
and taunt us with our
flaws.
