Sweet Addictions

Oblivion is marketed as sweet.

To the women:

"Try these ten tasty meals!"

You'll be thin after you choke down

Your first bite.

To the ill:

"A spoonful of sugar..."

Helps the medicine null your mind

Once you commit to your prescription.

To the desperate:

"They make it fruit flavored now"

And you can see the candy promises

Laid out in a pale powder line.

Oblivion is only sweet if

The memories you escape to

Are bathed in sugar

But then...

Relived memories taste like

Throwing up desires.

Sweet doesn't matter,

The aftertaste is all the same.