Marijuana
It was never something that I felt I need
But always smoked with a sense of greed
Being high was my only aim
It was the way I would play the game
Becoming a pothead was my lifestyle choice
I could always get high and rejoice
Never took a break long enough to see
What it was really doing to me
Always found a reason to justify
Always continued to just get high
In and out of the hospital
Often losing my mind right out of my skull
Then last time in a psychotic episode
I harmed two friends which couldn't be foretold
I had blindly done something of grave consequence
And my life has taken a turn since
Enforced abstinence has shown me now
Just how ill I was getting the why and the how
My life has changed between now and then
I meditate and try to be zen
I guess now there's one thing I know
I won't use again because of how that would go
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Written on February 29, 2024
Submitted by Willbad on February 29, 2024
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Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJKKLLMM |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 169 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
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