Marijuana Psychosis
Please, God Please, don't let them kill me
She thought she heard him shout
His room is locked, the door is blocked
Three days since he's been out
A million fears he contemplates
Too scared to rest his head
He dare not sleep or close his eyes
Those eyes of bloodshot red
He tells her what he's hearing
And she says it isn't there
The doctor said the weed did this
She says it isn't fair
Sedation, medication, stat!
To save his mind, his life
Drugs of every shape he took
To fight the one he likes
Son, please say it's over now
Your here and yet your gone
The doctor says you wont be back
I pray to God he's wrong
And in and out, and in and out
The dope smoke that he breathes
And in and out, and in and out
The hospital, the streets
I know your there inside somewhere
His mothers voice was shaking
I know that when you quit this junk
You'll get back what was taken
Somehow inside his scattered mind
Her voice said to the drug
That he again someday would be
The kid she raised and loved
And in and out and in and out
The doc, the school, the gym
And in and out, and in and out
Till he again was him
The dealers came a dozen times
A dozen times denied
Until the day his clean date was
A dozen weeks behind
My son, my son, it's been too long
Please say it's you this time
He pointed to his head and said
I've taken back what's mine
By Kyle Ezra Kriticos
Dedicated to those who "never came back" from marijuana induced pyschosis
Copyright © Kyle Kriticos | Year Posted 2012
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