Opioid
One life, two lives three lives, four
I'm the one you feared knocking knocking at your door.
It's me your friend, I'll make you feel good
I've now made my way to your side of the hood.
I'm used in hospitals, how bad can I be?
You'll find out soon, when you bow to me.
You think it's for fun,
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Categories:
opioid, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Tripping Point: An Opioid Odyssey
Tripping Point: An Opioid Odyssey
There are lines we cannot see, hardly know exist
Until we cross them. Then, as if by trip wire,
The temptress snare catapults us into a world
Of primeval darkness with no guide star.
“Hear my song and have a life of feel good”, she promises;
Her dissembled melody the dirge we can’t stop
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Categories:
opioid, addiction,
Form: Free verse
The Opioid Crisis
I wish I had known that the cocaine and heroine
That killed my friends in the sixties and seventies
Would become an “Opioid Crisis” in my later years.
I wish I had known that somehow the same bad choices
That not only killed but criminalized my friends back then
Would make today’s addicts poor victims who need accommodation.
I wish I
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Categories:
opioid, addiction, america, depression, drug,
Form: Free verse
Who Does Jay Help
When Dee threw his back out again
Jay was his right-hand man.
Good deeds from a Christian brother -
Love one another.
Jay would drive Dee to therapy -
faith, hope and charity.
Jay did shopping; my, what a friend!
A straw in the wind.
Pain pills missing; this is not cool,
missing the Golden Rule
Jay helped himself as he helped Dee
getting
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Categories:
opioid, abuse, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Annoyed By An Opioid
Avoid Being Annoyed By An Opioid
What we should do is try to avoid,
Becoming angry and also annoyed,
Destroyed for sure,
Not have to endure,
Or being tempted by another opioid.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
opioid, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Annoyed With Opioid
Annoyed With Opioid
Concerning subject became annoyed,
When anyone would mention opioid;
About worry,
And also jury;
Went ahead and did have destroyed.
Trump will never end up being wrong,
And always has been same old song;
Mouth had spurt,
And fell on shirt;
Forever we did know he was ding dong.
If pathetic person will play with politics,
There are many ways to perform tricks;
Definite door
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Categories:
opioid, addiction, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick