This Poem was Submitted By: arvin r. reder On Date: 2000-10-21 04:47:32 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Life's Dirty Highway

A drug life is but a phantom      Not like the athletes who came, Singing the national anthem      After winning the final game. Ask directions to be seated      To a game no one understood, The score is often repeated      With players judged as no good. They score with needles passed in ration      Sending hot joy into their vein, Exciting the nerves of lost passion      And relieving hours of endless pain. Filling all the craving they desire      but still losing on game day, Selling all the dignity they require      To score on life's dirty highway. You can see the shadows masked      As they gather in a darkened room, Some are crying as they passed,      In silence to a waiting tomb. Some asking and some looking for a sign      While some won't understand, There are gates at the closing line      That do not open with your hand. Starting at eight points of distance      The Hells Angels come in a pair, While riding horsemen take no chance      With death in the final square. The last needle takes them over hurdles      Flashing back to a life so cold, And a mother's breast milk curdles      for the child she did not hold...             

Copyright © October 2000 arvin r. reder


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