Hypocrisy

You're quick, too quick,

to judge those who reach for the shiny silver

of temporary relief.

You say it's wrong,

selfish and unnecessary.

That looking for something

to replace the pain

is never the answer.

 

 

You're right.

It's not.

 

 

But the harm, which you disregard,

comes in many shades.

Many shades of replacing emotion with physicalities.

 

 

Lighting the end of leaves rolled in paper.

The intake of the carcinogenics.

The exhaust-like fumes filling your lungs.

Is calming the emotion and replacing it with a physicality.

 

 

The downing of your liquid poison.

The toxicity of the substance burning your throat.

Your liquid meal drowning your brain.

Is forgetting the emotion and replacing it with a physicality.

 

 

The harm, which you disregard,

comes in many shades.

Many shades of replacing emotion with physicalities.

 

 

So before you judge,

accuse and threaten,

remember that you do the same.

Reviews

[cynicalbeliever]

remember my form could be so much worse and immediate..
that said,good poem