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Gossip Addict

It's like ****** each word said

Injected into my ear

Your lips are the needle.

I get chills, I know it's wrong

So wrong.

I try to avoid it by plugging my ears

The urge is too strong to

listen, listen, listen

The "Did you hear about"s and

The "I can't believe they"s

Have me crawling back for more

I'm hooked on those juicy lies

 

It's like a cigarette.

I breath in the information

Luckily, it doesn't blacken my lungs.

My soul, however cannot say the same.

I release the built up smoke

So everyone else can share in my knowledge

Some unwilling,

Others take a deep breath in,

Blackening their soul with

Second-hand gossip

 

It's like a joint

A community drug

You can't keep it all to yourself

Let's pass it around the circle,

And make sure everyone gets a

nice

long

drag

It makes serious matters casual.

You regret.

 

It's alcohol

I don't know what I'm saying

And my mind blurs with fuzzy lines

Between right and wrong.

I pick up my keys and

Drive my self righteous car.

I didn't see the stop sign.

I didn't see the warnings.

Now I've affected more than myself

As I stop too late.

I hurt a life,

Multiple lives.

 

Another victim taken.

Another life ruined.

Another gossip overdose.

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nicholle-justine
American
Published
Jun 19, 2013
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