Playground of Pain
Sliding
down
the
spoon
into a bubbling puddle of heroin
Creating the haze
That creeps across the park
Like a dense fog
Swinging on
C C
H H
A A
I I
N N
S S
OF METH
- Like a pendulum on my grandfathers clock –
Tick’
Tock
Tick
Tock (faster)
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tock…………
Swinging on monkey bars of dealers
With their MONKEY on my back
Spinning on the merry go round of liquor
Trying to walk life’s straight line
Tick’
Tick
Tick
Tock (faster)
Teeter tottering in and out of reality
On the courts of life
Playing for the last shot 3…...2…….......1………......
Tick
Tock!
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written for the contest sponsored by Deborah Guzzi
note: this is fictional a poem on substance abuse.
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