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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Side Effects

Preparations done each day,
do not prepare any family for the loss of a loved one.

Addiction and drug abuse blackens souls, 
shreds minds and dissolves bodies, tearing them
from families, friends and communities
leaving black holes that cannot be filled except with memory

Addictive drugs or alcohol are literal -
soulless and mindless, embodied only 
with ingestion, injection or breathed deep into tender lungs
Innocent powders and liquids when sitting alone
Powerful chemical torches when flooding the brain.

A day full of housework and homework,
bills, phone calls, emails and broken toys or tools
is a day full of living abundance and gratitude 
for the safety of my own family.

“Imagine trying to live without air.
Now imagine something worse.”
~ Amy Reed, Clean

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