WIN OR LOSE

POETRY BY: JOSEPH MAXWELL SPENCER

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What do you know about drugs?

Why is your heart tipping fast and hard?

Flexing a bicep pumped up with weights

Why do you feel smart on drugs?

Why do you feel you’re high?

Why do you think you’re Jet Li?

Arnie and Sly Stallone all rolled into one

You’re having a great time, you think

You’re smart and tough, you reckon

Everyone admiring how cool you are

You tell yourself every now and then

All the values and decision making

Acquired along the course of life

From parents, school teachers and aunts

Right from wrong

Good from bad

Smart from stupid

All forgotten for living in this virtual state

Drugs and alcohol turned into a dependency for you

Many people lost their lives you know

You lost your decision making processes

No money in your pocket, no doubt

No job, no life, no nothing

Another druggie walking the streets

It could be alcohol ruining your life

It could be legal-high or spice

Giving you mental health issues

One always leads to the other, oh yes!

From Whitney Houston to Kurt Cobain

Drug addicted celebrities and the like

Puking and scratching your ass and balls

If cards turned and you wound up in prison

That would be life dealing you a jail-card

It may be a chance to change your life

Drug counsellors awaits you at Her-Majesty rehab

All will be placed at your finger-tips on-call

No part of us is stuck in a world you know

The door to absurdity need to be welded shut

Prison time denotes a time to be bothered

But if you don’t win the race against addiction

You’ll always be the horse that ran the race

Win or lose is the course of life

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