My Own Affliction
I was told that it’s wrong to do but I went ahead and filled my heart with hate.
I don’t care what they say cuz that’s how I dealt with my ill fate.
I hope ya’ll can handle me now that you turned me into a pretender.
I hope I don’t meet the one to change me back, my single most apprehender.
No longer will I sit and wait to suffocate.
I’m going full speed ahead with intentions to infiltrate.
Well for a while time might stay suspended.
But I took my heart out so it doesn’t need to be defended.
I’m out and about with an old and selfish cause.
The decision was so easy that I didn’t hesitate or even pause.
I grew up big and they taught me to be strong.
And somewhere along the way I learned not to believe in a song.
I learned to rely only on what is real.
That takes away everything from my home to what I feel.
Even though I’m back on my personal highway to hell
I don’t think the idea of me going back to the bottle is gonna sell.
Life is one thing I truly don’t understand and I’m not even going to make and attempt.
It strikes me kinda funny that in God’s court I’m the first to find myself in contempt.
I don’t know up from down but I still know right from wrong but that doesn’t make my decisions resolute.
I’m chasing away my dreams and chasing down my demons with a shot of absolute.
That seems to go against what I said which makes it a contradiction.
So I have another human weakness, but it’s my own affliction.
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