Helping the Helpless
Cashed out, spun out, strung out
Ate up.... Malnourished, monkey riding piggyback
You fear you wont get your nickelbag
I fear you might get your children back
Numbing emotion swept up in crushed pill cyclones
Searching for elation through pupil dilation
who's that girl in the mirror?
You're behind the wheel...but who's gonna steer?
Second chances, interventions, and heartbreaks
we part ways...you wave bye---pipe in hand
Set sail on the fumes you inhale,
into an inebriated sunset, hell-bent
Scarred up, trail marks, trailer parks
Alleyway transactions, disease contractions...
Hand shake deals...see how this smack feels
SMACK! Down in a spiral of C.O.D. O.D.
pricetag on a fatality.........you payed for this reality
My eyes well up...stand in rainfall, no fear
no one will see the tears here.
No mourning your self-wrought slaughter...
Im here for your motherless daughter
I led her by the hand...away from a misery you called life
Copyright © Steve Voorhees | Year Posted 2009
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