A Plan Of Escape - Trauma Drama Poem by Singleton M. Tate

Dogged by time... all alone..
Left to moan... I'm too far gone...

CRACK... got me trapped...
Had a heart attack...
I kept looking back...

Hooked for real...
It's a big deal...
I need desperately to heal...

Fragmented prisoner that's me...
No way out... that I can see...
Handcuffed to misery...

Tried time and again...
It's a battle... I can't win...
God... I'm so very thin...

Who gives a care about
My sub-human despair?

I've burned all bridges
with the drugs...
Now I wish I had
someone to hug...

I had 'A Plan of Escape'
Smoked that last ROCK
Now it's much... too late...

In the hospital fighting
a losing game...
I gambled and lost
to the house bearing
the devil's name...

It's all over for me...
With my dying breath
I'll let the world know...
That consuming DRUGS
Is a fool's way to go...