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I am a happy, teetotal, sobre man. Sweeping my owns street, viewing my beam.

Splinters and Beams

Splinters and Beams

                    Stream of consciousness gleams under stark cover
                    Agents of psychotropic delusion blur and distort

White dust perforating a septum’s divide
Snuffed cuffed to addiction and stuffed
          ‘You are your downfall as you trip on your ride’

Little pinpricks endorsing a festering skin
Blisters of sinister conscience molested
          ‘Told you so that heroin sucks into abuse’

Meth crystals inhaled from a broken light bulb
Reignited beaming gleaming from splinters
          ‘Serves you right you are the scum of the earth’

Magic fungus mushrooming the doomed mind
From a domed cap on a stalk deluding insight
          ‘You deserve no better procured your decline’

Mary Jane weeding abysmal sativa salivating
with pleasure bleeding a buzz stoned for the thrill
          ‘All that hippie stuff why don’t you get real’ 

                    Flawed dust - broken needle - splintered neon - 
          Mouldy ingestion – disjointed joint - slushed drink

I never chased the dragon but fell of the wagon
Quite often imbibed left my shame bashed trashed
Befuddled and resolved against judgement when I now
Tend to sweep my side of the street sober and clean

                  Your splinter is your chip your own fragmentation
       My beam is my joist my scaffold and my crossbar to level

15th April 2018
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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DiMino Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 11:18 AM
Sad how people give away their power, the ability to destroy themselves or make of themselves gods, able to will new universes out of seeming nothingness. This is a very pointed, no holds-bared write of yours. I see in it great love, and not bitterness nor condemnation--and while a lot of formal education displayed, this is more from the heart of direct, in the trenches, experience. Great write! Great read! Thank you.
Neumann Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 2:49 AM
Thank you Joe. I especially appreciate that you do not see bitterness, but love. Many wishes, Kai
Gauthier Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 11:10 AM
A poem that does not leave one unmoved, Kai. Well done.
Neumann Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 2:49 AM
Thank you. Please be moved. Many wishes Kai
Cunningham Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 10:19 AM
So sad how many fall into to that downward spiral Kai, never to surface again.
Neumann Avatar
April 16, 2018 at 2:55 AM
Thank you Tom. Only we can live our own life. But we have to be fortunate (and grateful) to do so. Many wishes to you, Kai
Michael Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 6:50 AM
I still can't imagine the way these drugs consume its prey... powerful demons indeed...All the best Kai
Neumann Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 8:40 AM
Thank you Arturo. I never took any illicit drugs myself...but legal psychotropics like alcohol are no better....
Rodrigues Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 6:19 AM
A great write. The dangers are many. I always think of my son-in-law’s friend who died from heroin. Too too sad! Left behind a wife and child (same age as my grandson) long before he died.
Neumann Avatar
April 15, 2018 at 8:42 AM
It is such a waste. But, as I wish to express with my poem, you can only lead a horse to water and I have turned my wine into water. Ten years no drink.
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