Peace Drug Poems

Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi
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By Chad Carlson

Today I looked at my life in rewind
Found the good in mostly bad times
Smiled a lot and even laughed a little
Until I got...

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I hope you lose sleep
All these things you did to me
I'm done keeping peace...

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Do you love me
Do I even care
Care enough to find out
Care because I should
Should I ask you
Should you respond
Respond to my question
Respond with the truth
Truth...

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A quake took place
between my shoulder blades
teeth ground to dust behind my face
the scraping of tectonic plates
scared me to my hiding place
bottles and blankets, a...

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The violence is my addiction
The pain keeps me lingering
It's like my self-diagnosed prescription
Every shade of red now I find it triggering.

I want to stop it...

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It tells the soul,
I’ll give you wings.
I’ll enlighten you and bring peace.
I’ll fill your mind with a brilliant idea.
I’ll cause your heart to feel like...

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Like a rain dance gone wrong
Been raining so long
The sky is forever crying
But I see the sun keeps on trying
Now and then it will appear
Then...

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The Crash

f minor


Crash the last 
It is so reprehensible
Jake the fake
Pass out the indispensable
Crash the last 
It is incomprehensible
Just to spot
The need to be sensible

Snake...

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Why aren't words spilled, have voices stilled?
Our protest songs barely a squeak.
Have we grown inured to a hateful world,
now rest on our laurels, so to...

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Moms wondering when her son will come home
She don’t realize he now belong to the road
Chose his own destiny, a hustler’s life
Married the game, she’s...

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Music will never be loud enough again...
Just to cease the silence of this sadness
Of losing you to something of society's sickness;
I sometimes have to wail,...

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Dancing with crystals 
blowing smoke through my nostrils,
believing in the delusion
escaping from it's firm grasp;
the memories never ending
it's in my dreams,
interrupting my purpose
lieing to my...

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Psychedelics increase

    Poke fun at police

      Make Love ~ 

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Existing in a world
Full of lies and deceit,
I'm broken like a record
That constantly repeats.

Day after day 
It's the same routine,
I'm surrounding by nothing
But junkies and...

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