Poems About Heroin by Top Critiquers

The wonder drug since the electric paddles of life to comply
Prolonging your existence in the twinkling of an eye
Eyes closed no heartbeats pushing through
A night of Opiates indulgence, a needle for me none for you
That ultimate high
Taking your mind to an illusion of the sky
Crashing while coming down
Another hit, mindful delusion going around and around
Nothing stirring or making a sound
Eyes closed, as I’m greeting my destination
Mental trepidation without any hesitation
The highest point I can reach of my imagination ...

an eighties child...a chic mod  
listening to Prince and Bowie  
watching ET. Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, the Goonies  
preppies sporting Izods and members-only jackets  
dreaming of living in Malibu and going to Pepperdine college  
Reaganomics and D.A.R.E or drug abuse resistance education  
 
it didn't work on me
I had a wild streak  
I dare to try heroin at seventeen  
I dare to investigate the seedy side of life first hand  
 
by age eighteen I was on methadone
fighting a hardcore addiction  
that...

Beaten up beaten down and left to cry
 left to die  where  
not even the trees can be happy.  
   
Float glide slip slide where the waters  
insist you naught be dry, just to cry  
some more (unto big weepiness again).  
   
The real night has no shadows to deceive  
our senses. It's a place of deep peace. Not  
hardly the place of trepidation fulla spooks,  
devils, anti-christs, vampires, or the like.
Tis the same  
care-free playground where children have a  
chance to become saints in any given daylight,  ...