Heroin Or Heroine
Heroin or Heroine?
by Michael R. Burch
(for mothers battling addiction)
serve the Addiction;
worship the Beast;
feed the foul Pythons
your flesh, their fair feast ...
or rise up, resist
the huge many-headed hydra;
for the sake of your Loved Ones
decapitate medusa.
Keywords/Tags: addiction, drug, drugs, user, heroin, needle, track, tracks, marks, pain, despair, hopelessness, mental illness, heroine, heroic, hero, recovery from addiction, uplifting, strength
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