The Odyssey of Life

 Anything overindulged in can be an addiction
It having to only be drugs and alcohol is fiction
There're many things used to escape reality
Surviving in life can be a very difficult odyssey
Poverty, crime, sickness and ultimately death
Tragedies of the world devour until nothing's left
We enter the rat race trying to find our place
Multitudes of folks travel at an accelerated pace
Never taking the time to slow down and smell roses
Hindsight is twenty-twenty to making better choices
You live and you learn or you crash and you burn
There are many things not as I've always discerned
Closest ones to you can cause your ultimate downfall
Selfish people aren't interested in your conference call
Gotta learn when to push people away with a stiff arm
Before they get the opportunity to cause too much harm
Many will say they love you but that doesn't mean that it's true
Keep your third eye open like you're watching Blue's Clues