Addiction. Poems

Drug Facts: Escaping Reality

Drug Facts
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Active Ingredient      Purpose
Melatonin……………….Escaping reality
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Uses temporarily relieves the user from the excessive daily struggles of existing. Additional benefits and side effects include: 
•learning that it’s better to be unconscious than sad  •quieting the voices telling you to cover your stomach or stop laughing so loud or skip another meal

medicine

I whisper to my mom;
"do I look more like you, or daddy?"
daddy looks mean
he's only nice to the medicine
the medicine that keeps him going
through the long nights
the long nights that he thinks about me
and dreams about coming home to me.

he dreams of what I could've been
if the medicine wasn't the only thing that kept him

fields of life

to wend through golden grasses of my past
      with chill winds at my back from o'er the hill
   oh how I wish the glow of spring would last

thus far behind me stands that boy, miscast
      while just a jester, much too bright and

As We Walk By

cardboard mattress 
concrete box spring

cocooned within the threads of shame

pillow stained 
with dried tears of despair

air pockets 
hover with a pungent force

that’s the way I remember her bed—
as I walk by.

The shadow whisper

It’s whispers.
Can you hear them?
I don’t want to,
but they force me to.

Sitting in an empty room,
with no one—
just a cigarette in my hand.

Every time it touches my lips,
it kills me
and makes me want to avoid it—

I know that cigarette is not good for me,
but I like doing something
I know is going to kill me.

But he

City Halls and Councils in Lecture Mathematically Ending File

Calls for resignation in cities
When press powers overlay budget of objective
Journalism
Speaking for others illustrates division wrong

Pilot project cost the city $287 per ride given
City Councilman Bill Miranda speaks to the driver of the city's trolley before boarding Monday. Perry Smith/The Signal

The employment obstruction of causeway
Is debilitating to finance language 
In America 
These root answers create

Emotional Buffet

Death arrives when sorrow takes flight,
Even the game shivers when played in fright.

A wound so strange, a pain so new,
I pledged my soul to the beloved’s view.

I longed for you, that was my claim,
Fulfilled at last—by your leaving’s flame.

For years a lone star graced my skies,
It hides away, yet returns through goodbyes.

What would it mean

The Heat

You wake up, head in a haze,
can’t recall the prior day,
felt less good than it used to,
joints aching all over you.
Don’t know why you all went out,
pay today, there is no doubt,
something burned and you answered,
can’t explain, put into words…

Can’t explain, where it came from,
can’t explain, why it was done,
tried in vain, fooling no one,
when

I's that Can't C-

nineth number of the alphabet
hasn't eyes yet it's C's
the I's have it, because I is in front of T
And letter C is numbered 3
For me... I's that Can't C-

09/04/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©

Wraiths

We are the wraiths 
Floating above 
Embracing the ghosts
Of our chemical love

Weare the ones 
you're not sure you see
Hiding in shadows 
Barely perceived 

We search out the alleys
The cut throughs, the lanes
Old rusting bridges
That echo our names

Waiting for runners
When did they leave 
Bring us the air 
That only we breathe 

Empty glass vials
And sharp metal

What are you burning

What are you burning 
I think it's your soul 
Breathing in smoke
That won't fill the hole 

And when you breathe out
Your chemical pain
Your heart is still bleeding 
And numb just the same 

Emptiness comes 
You know it so well
The hours of nothingness 
Then breaking the spell 

Dead ends and grey roads 
You've been here before
Run

My ex lover

My love
Over the past,the joy glows in my heart
Replaying your smile and our rough path before today
I may be on the end of this road but I know the fear to loose you is real
My death of love shows in my visual insane episodes
I hallucinate and wish you are here
But I moved on and found

thy worldith thy endith ith

thy worldith isith thy canvasith.
thy painterith thy paintith.
thy poetith, makeith thy poetith.
thy worldith thy endith.
chickenith jockeyith.

The Drowning Darkness

When life goes right
it somehow never fails
that something from the past
tries to return and bite you in the tail.
Try as it may
I stand strong and stay
on the path set before me 
and nothing will get in the way.
I've been steadfast on this journey so far.
There is no way I can fall off the radar.
I've lived

the break up

The Breakup 

How cruel I was
cold shoulder against love
no reconciliation 
her heart was as cold
as mine
The night was endless
The day saved by a dog
I had some news beginning
but without her
She was not a part
It ended fairly 
She had a home, but not
near
My aloneness was great
the dog and I, in the forest
unruffled by reality 
Eating lunch in a beautiful
café, she

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