Wandering alone in this drug enduced reality,
Fake happiness swells inside.
She thinks she's found enlightenment,
Only to find she only found the path to her destruction.
Eyes lined in black and silver,
Become glaze over and shine like crystal.
Poor little fake one, ready for commercials,
Rainbow smiles so blinding, it's hard to see the lies.
Desperation screams, she wants to be thin,
Ana holds her hand and guids her till the end.
Tears fall like shooting stars as she glitters,
Making it hard to see the horror.
So she holds the florecent pill,
Her little chemical addiction.
Ecstacy's the only therapy she needs,
As pearls begin to fall from her swollen eyes.
Anger starts to fade as the high begins to flow,
All the darkness and pain fade away.
A glance in the mirror reminds her she's broken,
Seeing how cracked the image is behind the glass.
Covered in scars she's another teenage heartbreak,
She trys to runaway but life always hold her here.
They say it's rebellion, but it's really depression,
As she hides the bruises beneath her pretty cloths.
Everybody says they love her, but really they hate,
For she can hear their bitter whispers.
So again she finds herself lost in a world of plastic glamour,
Trying to drown herself out, trying to forget all the pain.
Author notes
about how addiction is used to kill pain and replace true sadness with fake content.
the words I used are Underlined
In a list
A contest entry
- Pretty Like needles by Lithium n lollipops.
335 points, ended January 24, 2007, 10 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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amanzing!
wow babe this is crucile...i love the border you put to it its very approprete. so so so many things i can relate to...i miss talkin to you and reading your stuff sis! i havent been on much either...i went on a year or so herion bindge and then i wen tto jail and then moved to florida to go to rehab and now im back out about to back into detox....im fuckin up real bad but girl i hope your doing ok...i am getting help for my ED as well babe.
miss ya, Love ya!
Love, Lynn
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Excellent
Strong and powerful with so much truth behind your words...stinging truth. Great flow and imagery.
BRAVO
Nevadapoet -
amazing
that was absolutely amazing it had a flow a certain truth behind it that can be matched by nothing at all it was a great use of words in it all it flowed the placement the wow it was amazing indeed i wow
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Powerfully vivid imagery in this poem - you have a great way with words. I particualrly loved the line "rainbow smiles so blinding, it's hard to see the lies." Good luck in the contest!
DancingRed.
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this is a brilliant peice, I can relate to a lot of it as regretiably I have had an extensive past of drug expiriance. You wrote this brilliantly, really holding the reader and conveying everything so clearly.
great peice, good luck in the contest
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AWESOME JOB!!!
Hey tasha.... This was a great poem.. You have come just a long way... you continue to amaze me.. With everything that has happened to you or things that are going on in your life you continue to fight...its amazing i know im older then you but istill look up to you... Good luck in this contest i hope that you win it and keep on writing...
Love Krissy
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Breath taking
I read this poem and it almost made me cry because as I read farther and farther I seen myself. For I am a recovering drug abuser myself and when you get ahold of drugs before you know it you start to love the high, then they grasp ahold of you strangling your strength and soul until one day you really forget who you really are. Great peice. *whips a tear away from my eye*
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