Where is the Value?

They shook hands with devils not really known.
Would a fist bump have kept them apart?

How many souls have gone down before
not knowing addiction’s true heart?

A handshake is open and often seems true
Fist bumps are closed hand to hand.

Disease doesn’t care whether open or closed
and is false about what’s truly planned

Months, weeks or years go rolling along
as addiction lies dormant and still.

When demons and devils stir once again,
active addiction invades with it’s chill.

Where is the value in this fierce disease?
Only those clean and sober can know.

“Addiction isn’t about using drugs. It’s about 

what the drug does to your life.”

~ Enock Maregesi

***Author’s note:  the above quotation is true of alcohol as well.