Abyss Of Addiction Poem by Max Burchett

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by Max Burchett

In every street and town,
Poisons abound,
Tricking the mind,
Destroying the brain.

Some seek it out
For cheaper effect,
But have to pay with their bodies,
And pay with their lives.

Unwittingly lured
By a false sense of escape,
Becoming victims
To an insidious grip.

Drugs, nothing new, in times past,
In shadows it thrived, the silent foe,
Unseen, ever present in varied forms,
Still claiming lives, shattering dreams.

Still the silent whisper beckons,
Drug allure persists, a Siren's song,
Promising solace, momentary bliss,
But the price of escape, greater suffering and death.

Generation to generation, the cycle repeats,
Drugs evolve, taking on different disguises,
Still offering refuge from life's defeats,
But devastation and darkness, all the same.

Victims seeking a way to battle their demons,
The drug becomes a demon itself.
Then finally, the addicts only friend,
Their deadly companion to life's end.