Voo Doo Doll
John G. Young, M.D.
They stick you time
and time again,
my voo doo doll.
They say it is to poison
the bad cells within you,
but I feel each stab,
one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve
and more times
to find the missing vein,
pain increasing as one inept
team after another tortures you,
stabbing here, then there
to find the missing vein,
no one knowing how much you hurt,
and how you fear more hurt
as they search for the missing vein.
As they stab you, they stab me.
We are one, my love, in this torture
that began over a year and a half ago.
Yesterday it gave me great joy
to find we were compatible
blood types, and I was happy
to bleed for you knowing
my blood will go through that missing vein
that goes straight to your heart,
my voo doo doll.