The drug suppliers keep feeding on innocent
poeple are far more fearful then those who fall into that pit becoming an addiact. They turn a good heart into a vicious heart...but I
feel this write also holds something more deeper then that! Very interesting this write is!

D.O.O.

You have put into words the horror of addiction. The eyes are a window to ones soul. An addicts eyes seem empty and void since the soul has been removed.A very sad write for the hopeless and helpless. There is a simpler and easier way, few find that path back from this exsistence. Thanks for sharing

The desire to be free is sometime not enough for an addict. They have also want a change in their lives for themselves along with the desire and it may take many times and years to be free. And sometimes they never get free. Well done.

My best friend died in front of his daughter of an overdose of drugs. The last thing he saw was his baby girl with tears in her eyes.
God help the addict, and damn the dealers

Excellent poem, Olwin! I like the way portray drug addiction as a tyrant. Because it is, in the worst way. Like TJ, I knew someone who died of an overdose, right in the front yard of my house some years ago. In Florida, where I moved from, dozens die the same way all the time. They have a nickname for this problem: Pharmageddon!

There are many Theives that rob us of our senses and humanity...none more than the drugs supplied by the cartels and Mr Jones next door....Well penned Olwin

Hi Olwin
I've known a few of these and you describe the condition very well. You also paint a very unattractive picture of life as a drug addict for anyone reading - and that makes this an important piece. When importance can be mixed with art, it is true art in my opinion.
All the best
Ben

Any addiction is hard to get over.

You write well about the 'impossible task' of giving up and the 'desire from this terror to be free.'

Excellent write

Excellent poem. I don't know anyone on drugs but from what I have seen in movies this really does depict visually everything that I would imagine being on drugs looks and feels like. Very well rhymed, strong visuals and emotionally compelling loved it Milly x