[Content Warning] Addictions

Drugs
- they're a modern plague,
'tis said,
 chemical ways of forgetting,
seeking a moments release
after which
the pain's not gone
it's there, mayhap even
redoubled.

But the chemicals,
alcoholic and other, 
are not the only surcease:
there's also the lure
of the great weekend,
or the great lay,
after which
the pain's not gone
it's there, mayhap even
redoubled,
and our sorry, sorry lives,
stay unremarked,
unchanged, and
unimproved,
as greedy, shallow
and material
as ever, and still
unremarked
by heads up
collective rears.


Copyright © Kayleen White, 2014 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication) I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)