Short Enablers Poems

reach me now
before its too late
you'll float away
on another mistake
another round of crack and meetings
another time of silence
weeks on weeks I think you're dead
stuffed in a closet
locked in a room
addiction is worse
for those that are not enablers
and must
live in grief...

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   One side calls a militant a terrorist
     The other deems him a freedom fighter
   Each side sure the other is blacker
     Each side confident it is whiter... 

   But when it comes to mass rapes of Israelis
     to Hamas' fully-documented sexual atrocities
   There is one, and only one, surety

   The perpetrators and all their enablers
      must be eliminated ~ swiftly and completely
...

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Sanity is a Fragile Gift

  Sanity must be a fragile gift; so many lose it.
  Whispered voices in our heads. Who are you?
  Guilty? Or maybe a victim of circumstance?
  My biology and chemistry are enablers.

  Valium and Xanax and beer and wine help me to
  not scream naked in the street and break down.
  Anything to avoid trips to the mental wards.
  That becomes their go to "treatment". Lost......

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Two Enablers
Who can’t Say No
Written: by Tom Wright
7-20-1916

We find it most difficult for us to say no,
Because we care for those in some throe,
The same people borrow but seldom repay.
They continue seeing us as their mainstay.

Some use us, for a filling station, or bank,
We feel like two pirates walking the plank.
Does it mean by enabling we’re now tools?
Or that others now see us merely as fools.
...

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