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To… My best friend and lover. Protector of my lies …You rescued me And ****** me to my fate. Spiralled the dopamine to brilliance In my mind. To spangled halls of light, Reflective light, and calm. A golden calm Of energised, invincible intensity…… Addiction is thy name. Compulsion is thy talent Up, up the trammelled pathway From the innocence of a **** To the chaotic expense of **** Then to the dreamy, smoked Opiates, And the scars of the needles And magic of Coke & big H ? And ultimately… It’s all not enough! The hollow inadequacy of it all When finally….. Nothing, Nothing achieves flight. Nothing attains the heights. Nothing satisfies Like it used to….. No amount of money Buys satisfaction! Hopelessly Into the Black Hole. Down, down the trammelled pathway And the body is wasted, thin And the mind in misery, And broke, utterly penniless, Exhausted and spent, Estranged and abandoned, Alone, so alone. Down the trammelled pathway To the inevitable retreat Into failure’s squalid, numbing, bitter End. M. May 31 2014 From the outside looking in.
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM UTC
The Trammelled Pathway.
To… My best friend and lover. Protector of my lies …You rescued me And ****** me to my fate. Spiralled the dopamine to brilliance In my mind. To spangled halls of light, Reflective light, and calm. A golden calm Of energised, invincible intensity…… Addiction is thy name. Compulsion is thy talent Up, up the trammelled pathway From the innocence of a **** To the chaotic expense of **** Then to the dreamy, smoked Opiates, And the scars of the needles And magic of Coke & big H ? And ultimately… It’s all not enough! The hollow inadequacy of it all When finally….. Nothing, Nothing achieves flight. Nothing attains the heights. Nothing satisfies Like it used to….. No amount of money Buys satisfaction! Hopelessly Into the Black Hole. Down, down the trammelled pathway And the body is wasted, thin And the mind in misery, And broke, utterly penniless, Exhausted and spent, Estranged and abandoned, Alone, so alone. Down the trammelled pathway To the inevitable retreat Into failure’s squalid, numbing, bitter End. M. May 31 2014 From the outside looking in.
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM UTC
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