Medicating with music and distraction

Trying to bury the pain

A stray thought, a sharp twinge

Give me a little more novocaine

Tried so long to forget

Can't recall how I finally did

The memory and emotion are 6 feet under

But I forgot more than intended

I thought I'd be stronger for it

But I feel like spiderwebbed glass

Everything just slightly out of place

And frozen as time and life pass

Was the pain worse than this?

I almost wish I remembered

So I could put this nagging thought to rest

That the medicine is worse than the disease cured