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Christmas OD

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Silent night…
headlights stream out into the darkness, as the sirens wail
Holy night…
paramedics lift her pale body onto a stretcher and into the ambulance
All is calm…
her lips are motionless, her tongue dances to no sound
All is bright…
her lungs breathe slow, and begin to fail
Round yon virgin…
gathered around the patient, their movements flutter, helpless
Mother and child…
her mother watches, restlessly as her daughter is wheeled under the white lights
Holy infant so tender and mild…
no sound escapes her mouth, so soft and sluggish now
she whispers to God
Sleep in heavenly peace…
rushing into the hospital, they cut the clothes from her body
watch them falling
down, down
push a pipe, oxygen through to her chest -
Sleep in heavenly peace.
From my most recent (December) hospitalisation.

Before Christmas I overdosed, and slipped into a coma. (I have type I bipolar disorder with psychosis). They cut the clothes off my body and forced a tube down my throat, and hooked me up to machines to force me to breathe again.
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