Bitter medicine one, two, three,
How you poured it carefully,
Bitter medicine one, two, three,
How you poured it gleefully,
Drop by drop bitter and thick,
Just the cure to make him sick.
Bitter medicine one, two, three,
How you waited patiently,
Stirred with spoon and sugared the pill,
'till he was seriously ill,
Bitter medicine one, two, three,
You wanted all the world to see,
Your kindness-killing mimicry.
Drop by drop and year by year,
A measured dose just like each tear,
Bitter medicine one, two, three,
Death by tea and sympathy.
© Stephen Evans 2013
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