DEMONS BECKON ME

DEMONS SEEM TO POP UP OUT OF NOWHERE
ALWAYS THERE ALWAYS WAITING
WAITING FOR ME TO USE
SCREAMING AT ME
YOU KNOW YOU WANT ME
YOU CAN DO IT

HAUNTING MY EVERY THOUGHT
MY EVERY NERVE SCREAMING TO LET GO
KNOWING THE RELIEF IS THERE
JUST WAITING FOR ME TO RELEASE IT
MY VEINS CRYING OUT TO ME
MY BODY TREMBLES

THE DREAM SEEMS SO REAL
YET IT IS A NIGHTMARE
DISGUISED AS A DREAM
TEMPORARY RELIEF FROM PAIN
OR IS IT JUST A DISGUISE
DEPRIVATION AT ITS WORST

ONLY TO BRING MORE PAIN
MORE DEVASTATION
LOSSES OF RESPECT
NO DIGNITY TO BE HAD
IN THE DEPTHS OF MY FAILURE
ARE THE ONES I LEAVE BEHIND

THOSE WHO LOVED ME
LEFT WEEPING AFTER MY LOST SOUL
CRYING AND SHATTERED
MY SHATTERED LIFE IN RUINS
THERE LIVES TORN APART
THE MYTH AND LIES OF DRUGS

THE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE THE PAIN
SO SWEET AT FIRST
HORSE/ HEROINE
SPEED/ METH
HOOKED/ WHIPPED
NEEDLES/ DEATH

AND THOSE LEFT BEHIND
PAY THE PRICE
LOVED ONES RIPPED FROM THERE LIVES
BY THE LIES OF THE DEMON
THE STENCH LEFT BEHIND
THAT OF THE DECAYING CORPS

Reviews

[WiLL i e]

I've lived all of it, sadly. So much devastation and wreckage in my wake. And toughest of all I seek no escape from it anymore. It's just life on life's terms now....a game of catch-up ball I will never finish. But (no irreverence intended for absolute real) clean at last clean at last....thank God ALmighty...clean at last. To those still in bondage to narcotics go my prayers

[Georgios]

{ THE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE THE PAIN - SO SWEET AT FIRST - HORSE/ HEROINE - SPEED/ METH - HOOKED/ WHIPPED - NEEDLES/ DEATH }
I find nothing sweet in these words. It is a dramatic and, at the same time, effective composition.

[Jock Engelman]

This poem is so close to my heart. My mother was a drug addict. No one ever expected me to amount to anything more than her. I am still a stoner. I am still a drunk. I have still made terrible mistakes. But I can say honestly that where I lack perfection. I attempt to deter teenagers who feel that they are on the edge. And that they have no choice. I attempt to show them that they can be whatever or whoever they wish. And that it's not what happens to us that defines us. It's how we cope and respond to the things that happen to us. And that even if I have reserved my place in hell on this planet and within my mind I will not let others be left alone in the dark.

I am overjoyed to award this a perfect rating of 100/100.

I know that my opinion alone does not amount to much, but it's all that I have to give you and people who have not yet set themselves on a path where they feel that they will never forgive themselves.

[BikerAngie]

I might want to add that this was actually written for my ex-boyfriend who did leave me to go back to drug use. I am now thank God with a wonderful Christan man whom I love and loves me but I will always remember Bret and the love we once shared till drugs took him away.

[wyrd]

many people have struggled with addiction. Not so many express their journey so well.