Battling Addiction

As the midnight moon slowly traced its way across the starry sky it graced The urge for a hit held him in a seductive embrace As cold sweat dripped from his face The crack pipe was calling him out of his bed Unable to resist, he rose to feed his habit instead Addiction tortures the body and mind Sapping the will and ravaging the soul Shattering to pieces what was once whole And leaving just the shell behind Family and friends tried to find ways to help, and make him see the light But the call of the pipe was too hard to resist His hopes and his dreams went up in the mist With the help of a higher power he enrolled in a rehab program He finally realized that he should give a dam And tried to get his life back on track Before he died of a heart attack Cocaine, alcohol, ecstasy, crack Can become the monkey you cant get off your back It's been three years since he hit the pipe An addiction that almost destroyed his life He lost everything, including his wife He goes to meetings three times a week If he should relapse the havoc it would wreak He now had the power to fight the craves Either that or end up in a grave As the midnight moon made its way across the sky He thanked heaven above that he no longer got high