He is cocaine personified

Euphoria defined

A love that seeped so rich and toxic

Into the fabric of my heart

A lie that coiled itself so cleverly

Inside the caverns of my mind


He is a crystalline addiction

That snared me in its beautiful deceptions

The adrenaline that forced its way into my bloodstream

That made my heart convulse

As I gasped in wonder

At the dreams he wove for me

Like a veil over my eyes


I ran mindlessly toward him

In the cars of speeding trains

That thundered through the endless valleys

Where my mind returned to him


No cost high enough

No consequence severe enough

To deter me from the ecstasy

Of his lips forming the letters of my name

Of his eyes on mine

Of his hands guiding me


Even now

When he's long gone

His strings still tie themselves to me

No matter how I try to wane myself

From the pleasure of his presence


On the brink of sanity

Chained to cloud nine

I pay the full price of addiction