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! ____________________________________________ written for the contest sponsored by Deborah Guzzi note: this is fictional a poem on substance abuse.