Chemical Dreams

grey hooded shadows visit me in half dreams, speak to me in a language I understand, their voices filled with laughter and eery screams, they come riding from a far of foreign land! they talk of green fields that spread for unseen miles, of breeze that scatter past tiny pods of seeds, essence of evil that sanity beguiles, they crawl down secret streets to addiction feed! misled in life, blinded by arrogant rage, in company of men with ignoble sways, I started for fun, victim of my own age, the beginning of the end of my sane days! vortex of swirling desires swallowed me whole, from happy sunshine in to this deep abyss, trapped and thrashing in this dark fathomless hole, abandoned, shipwrecked in a state of false bliss! my unwashed skin shows the chemical rampage, my smile bears the blackness of my foolish deeds, my soul imprisoned in a suffering cage, with every puff of acrid smoke, my death speeds! grey hooded shadows visit me in half dreams, the language they speak is language of reason, they warn of dangers in many painful screams, tell of tormented minds, soul’s festering lesion! did not win Addiction poetry contest sponsor Rob Levasseur Written 22/12/2020 24 lines each with 11 syllables abab cdcd .... rhyme sequence