Jewels,

Little jewels, jelly
filled emeralds bringing
relief
50
milligrams at a time.

Living
on another coast, another
man, another
jewel, sapphires
in that
place.

Still, relief
in the gel; sapphire, emerald,
beryl even. The colors,
the gems, they matter
not. The relief
lies
in the milligrams -

dosages
swallowed
daily - nightly
by
a coward.

One
afraid to admit, to
return to, who
what - he is,
he belongs.

One,
two,
three four,
five,
six seven eight - how
many will be
enough
tonight?

_(04-08-2010)