doctors forget about our souls
they treat us like machines
oil our parts
with little white pills
we often take without question
from the people we expect to have the answers
but often times they are just bandaids
not long term solutions
when we ask questions
they often answer with knowledge they don’t have
quoting their own experience
rather than statistics
so we do our own research
spend time we don’t have
to make sure these tablets we’re taking
won’t do damage to the systems in our bodies
that are already failing us
we’re not specimens waiting to be examined
in a petri dish of lab results
we’re people with souls
that need to be revitalized not just with
mango flavored electrolyte powder every four hours
but with the sun
and with the people we love
and there’s no space for that in the perfect pie charts
of the system meant to fix us
one drug at a time