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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2021

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Marie Lim*
Affiliation:
General Medicine, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, UK
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Author for correspondence: Marie Lim, General Medicine, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, UK. E-mail: marie.lim@doctors.org.uk
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Poetry
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 263
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Green is the colour of life

A lifetime written on green paper

Citalopram, furosemide, simvastatin

A lifetime of ills placated by ink

“I take everything my doctor prescribes”

Unwavering confidence

Hands clutching an enduring existence

Bound by a motley of remedies

Cure, or affliction?

A panacea they are not

Safety — Stifling, sickly

A Gothel to her ward

A thousand paper cuts

Soothed in rationale

Watch as vigor renewed

From a pharmacon of less

Green is the colour of death

But one easily remedied

Through prudent medicament choices

Life's sweet simplicity anew