Codeine for opiate dreams
Cocaine for days mundane
Some who indulge are considered insane
Others know it helps with the pain
Longing for life and running from death
Isn’t always a hobby for those bereft
Lost love or lost life
Haunts their bones late at night
With only the poison relief
To make them feel right
To dance beneath the stars
Pupils dilated to appreciate the light
Making up new friends
To rewrite the stories that bite
Or maybe drift in a clouded haze
That fuzzies their external gaze
Dampening life’s imminent maze
All to numb the fear of days
Impending ending
That final phase
So let them dance
And sway in peace
You don’t know their hell
Their internal grief
Allow them refuge all the same
As they indulge
Codeine and cocaine.