I took the drug for all it's worth
and talked the drug from death to birth
And wondered why I walked the walk
of drugged for mice and not for Earth
And told myself what I would know
when all who others said I'm stoned
Told death for me when I had known
what all along was I to doned
And all I thought was left to tone
when only those who celebrate
Left me to live without a date
of what it was to concentrate
For when I learned what I had done
my lips were sealed and I was one
With what I'd learned from other's tongue
of lost for now and cost for stun
That soon I learned to be as best
what all would say had been a test
Of freedom come for those too late
and I not sure just how to gait
That even I was saved by dumb
when others left me to succumb
So I could see that I was led
in failing all with honest gum
And I could say I had belonged
to what was right and got along
To take what I gave failing grade
to all mankind who changed as wrong
Your sun-tanned skin,
On which I am high,
Those curls and smoke-stained lips—
Have drugged me long;
Wet afternoons and your hazel eyes—
Immersed me into the foggy fountain!
Our body fluids are well acquainted,
Yet our minds are lost in an intoxicating fume!
Submitted to: Some Kind of Sensual Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
Written and submitted on: 04/06/2020
The familiar burbon warmth
crept through each vessel,
slow and hard the burn-
turning me out from the inside.
I closed my eyes
and braced for impact,
I always fall hard right here...
Long tendrils of silky-soft hair
framed my porcelain face as I
lowered my head in defeat.
I'm clean on the surface
but stained like church glass underneath,
a wrecked consequence
of this beautiful life
that is ominously cursed
with the promise of death.
Looks as if your war's finally over.
You've fallen down the Rabbit Hole
No longer can you pretend to be okay.
Nothing is what it seems anymore.
You've fallen down the Rabbit Hole,
The Mad Hatter's tricked you good
Nothing is what it seems anymore.
Red screams, "Off with your head!"
The Mad Hatter's tricked you good
and now confusion burns your mind,
Red screams, "Off with your head!"
You fall from your drugged high.
and now confusion burns your mind,
No longer can you pretend to be okay.
You fall from your drugged high.
Looks as if your war's finally over.
I feel drugged
Whenever we hug
Whenever you smile
I dont even care that
this poem may seem
a little too happy
cause it's what you do
you straighten my blues
whenever my days get nappy
and I what I feel for you
I've never felt before in my life
I'll never fall down from this high
that's the part that scares me
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