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Best Overdoses Poems

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With the Kids
Another boring lost night.
Sipping on warm beers outside the local store.
Trying to stay outta the cops sight.

Cars gather stereos blasting in the 
parking lot.
Local kids...

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Categories: overdoses, angst, life, people, social
Form: I do not know?



Disaffection
DISAFFECTION

To any politician,
Tell someone who cares...
This is society's news I'm reading,
Disaffection and tales of lemmings,
To any politician, 
Tell someone who cares,
Homeless youth, street sleeping,
Drug overdoses...

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Categories: overdoses, addiction, angst, change, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Life Is Like a Rainbow
Life is like a rainbow
Take it slow
And enjoy the show
No need to rush
The end will be here soon enough
The day has begun
Try making it a...

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Categories: overdoses, inspiration, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Soul
One day my soul lied to me 
It claimed the Sun would always shine
The Moon would always glow
And Love would erase Hate forever
For years I...

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Categories: overdoses, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Cry From a Server
A Cry From a Server  

We stand on our feet for 12 hours for you. 
We provide you with delicious sustenance. 
We support your...

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Categories: overdoses, abuse, america, appreciation, class,
Form: Free verse



My Life and Our Lives
My head spinning  
My mind twisted,
Im caught up in a propeller 
While my body is being catapulted,
My life's a spin, so its your turn
Jumping...

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Categories: overdoses, deep, earth, identity, life,
Form: Verse
Stolen Time
Awoken by his exit from a dream of love so divine
Ghostly memories were left behind to forever haunt my mind
Gone was the one true love...

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Categories: overdoses, love, me, heart, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Basted Brain
BASTED BRAIN
                     ........
Your BRAIN is...

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Categories: overdoses, addiction, drug,
Form: Rhyme
A State of Absance
I’m in a state of absence but blissfully unaware
As for now seems like my only real prognosis
I'm not one for ignorance but now don't care
And...

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Categories: overdoses, write,
Form: Rhyme
Death You Hold a Scythe Over Me
Death you hold a scythe over me
i have waited for you
there is no trepidation here
i am a paucity of patience
i welcome you
the engine is long...

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Categories: overdoses, anger, meaningful, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Else Is New
the fiber optic cables are swollen with grief
blood clots the airwaves
faces beyond despair stare from half a world away
newsprint is smudged with the tears it’s...

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Categories: overdoses, faith, humanity, sad, senses,
Form: Free verse
Distant Memories
Remember when...
Getting high meant swinging on the playground, 
never connected to smoke from an exhale sound 

The worst thing you could get from the opposite...

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Categories: overdoses, life, time, life, drug,
Form: Rhyme
A Global Warming Almanac
Januari brings the glow, that                    ...

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Categories: overdoses, nature, parody, seasons, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Still Counting
And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly,
You start to count.
First on the days, then the hours - then
Just counting until 100
Then
Beginning     ...

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Categories: overdoses, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Despair and Hope
Despair,
Walk the city streets in the dark of night; you will find it there
As the number of homeless rises like a disease, does anyone even...

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Categories: overdoses, faithlife, me, drug,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs